
by Allen Jih and Adam Vines
“The language is so sharp and the description so precise, each poem unveils images that leave you with a kind of synesthesia. One sense stirs another until the world of the book becomes your own. You see things you didn’t know you’ve been wanting and waiting to see: Spanish Moss lashing dragonflies, an afternoon’s impersonal reverie. You cannot rest, nor should you.” — Erica Dawson, author of The Small Blades Hurt

Allen Jih currently resides in Las Vegas, where he works as an acrobat specializing in aerial straps. He has performed on America’s Got Talent and has worked with Cirque Du Soleil in their annual “One Night for One Drop” charity event. He holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Florida.
Adam Vines is an assistant professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he is editor of the Birmingham Poetry Review and director of the honors program. He is the author of The Coal Life (University of Arkansas Press, 2012). During the summers, he is on staff at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.