Said the Worms
(By Jordan Ranft)
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—Geoff Rickly, author of SOMEONE WHO ISN'T ME and lead singer of THURSDAY
"There is a river that runs through Jordan Ranft’s debut chapbook, Said the Worms, and it is hungry. It hollows out creation myths. It mines religious artifact. It makes a stage of parking lots and open air, in equal measure. And it carries the reader—at times along a sweeping, breathless current—tenderly. Because this is a collection of soft parts, in the end. Like a worm, these poems do not relent despite how exposed and vulnerable they are made to be; despite how often the world may poke its uncaring finger into their sides. These poems are a beautiful thing—"despite the obvious symbolism / of a snake refusing to eat its tail", this is a collection that devours."
— Ashley Cline, author of & WATCH HOW EASILY THE JAW SINGS OF GOD (Glass Poetry Press), ELECTRIC INFINITIES (Variant Lit), and COWABUNGALY YOURS AT THE END OF THE WORLD (Gutslut Press)”
