PRAISE:
Andrew Rahal‘s Sharky is a beautifully textured collection: poems of place, of fatherhood, of love and exhaustion, of environmental degradation. Rahal is concerned with experience, with testing, tasting, speaking. Here is the mouth of a river, the mouth of a shark, the mouth of a baby with “the universe expanding on [their] tongue”, and the poems delight in their own gorgeous facility for language: as a teacher says of his students, “I want them to know the mouth provides an embarrassment of riches.”
–Nick Laird
In Sharky, Andrew Rahal conjures a quotidian magic. Each poem develops into its own uniquely cinematic Polaroid: dreamy, tender, playful, perceptive in its framing, and, perhaps most essentially, genuine in its voice. Together, the poems reveal the layers of depth and complexity beneath the ordinary world—both its wonders and its violences.
–Sara Eliza Johnson
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