"As with the best writing, I found myself simultaneously devastated and soothed, satiated and hungry for more."

--Susanna Childress, author of Entering the House of Awe

TANKA & ME is a visceral, pleading, and fierce collection of poems, underpinned with thudding vessels and satisfying wreckage. Kaethe Schwehn externalizes the overlooked power of women into a multidimensional character who hunts both the speaker and the reader. Our wild Tanka engages down deep with role-play, sex, prayer, and refusal until we can't look away or stay quiet. These are love...