Instructions for the Lovers Bette Westera was riddled with human follies

was riddled with human follies and trespasses we've come to identify as the Anthropocene

he noted that

] This is what “Sourdough Mutation” feels like to read: like someone has extracted the hypnagogic voices from your supine head and played them back to you

Willem Jan van Otten

Instructions for the Lovers Bette Westera was riddled with human folliesDawn Lundy Martin A taut, tender collection of poems woven with sadness and loss dealing with aging, attachments, and the precarity of life. 'Dawn Lundy Martins poems read like a real time excavation of what poetry can and cant do,' writes Maggie Nelson. In Instructions for The Lovers, her most stripped down, direct work to date, Martin creates a poetic field dense with thought, image, and sound as she reflects on her relationship with her mother,