Honeyfish by Lauren K. Alleyne Pat Boram or its layout on the

or its layout on the page - to engage the reader

 Jutland consists of two extended sequences: Advice on Wearing Animal Prints

a bold meditation on hope

intelligence and no small sense of mischief

In using an epigraph from the 18th-century poet Christopher Smart

Honeyfish by Lauren K. Alleyne Pat Boram or its layout on theHoneyfish confronts life and death. The collection begins and ends with poems that memorialise and mourn the deaths of African Americans who have died at police hands, though to call them poems of protest would simplify their exploration of what life means in relation to death. It is a collection whose architecture works to make each poem, beautiful in their singular grace, add up to much more than the sum of their individual parts. Thus, the poems