With Bloom Upon Them and Also with Blood: A Horror Miscellany

Reed’s] poems take up the body in desire and violence, and they do so by thrusting the reader into a stark visceral encounter with their material.” —The New York Times “Raw, nervy, reverberant, densely packed language whose import simply can’t be reduced to easy explanation. . . . One-of-a-kind brilliant.” —Library Journal “Indecency made me stand up and applaud.” —The Millions “Reed’s poems are formally inventive, especially when he works in concrete ways on the page. . . . The reader winds up in a new place without realizing they were being moved there.” —The Rumpus “Rich with musical echoes and sonic ironies.” —Vulture “A poignant, searing book.” —Entertainment Weekly “Reed’s wit and formal experimentation, quicksilver and luminous, shows the world as it is, while detailing how the very people that society most devalues, demeans, and seeks to destroy are its true visionaries.” —The Adroit Journal “Reed wrestles with finding the language to convey the pain of that double oppression and still manages to create terrible beauty.” —Signature