Soft Flood | Brenna Lee

“Poems of loss, intimacy, and insight, Brenna Lee’s Soft Flood maps intensity constellations: that of embodiment, of being alive. Visionary, contemporary, and vital.” –Hoa Nguyen, author of A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure (Wave Books 2021)   Soft Flood looks closely at bodies in extreme moments and conditions. It begins in the place where: "Cattails burn. This is a diversion."  Brenna Lee writes here, before anything arrives and when it's already, perhaps, too late. Lee's chapbook is an ideal form, constituted as it is of "forgotten edges," "misdirection as an act of intimacy," and "open to disintegration."   –Bhanu Kapil   Brenna Lee received her BA from Pennsylvania State University and her MFA from Naropa University, where she was the recipient of the Leslie Scalapino Award. Her work has recently appeared in BathHouse, Bone Bouquet, No Contact, and Dream Pop Journal. She is a Writer-in-Residence for InsideOut Literary Arts and teaches in Detroit.   Watch the Broken Thing Fal