Know Thy Audience M. Nourbese Philip First issued by Tsunami Editions

First issued by Tsunami Editions in 1993

and a preface by Eugene Ostashevsky

” Ossuaries’ futurist speaker rounds out the collection and threads multiple temporal worlds—past

but tenderness can change everything

Know Thy Audience M. Nourbese Philip First issued by Tsunami EditionsNadia de Vries Know Thy Audience, Nadia de Vries third poetry collection, disavows the platitude from which it takes its name and makes the reader complicit in both her aggression and her submission, sparked by a history of domestic abuse that escapes all euphemism and metaphor but not poetry altogether. Speakingor rather, singingas a battered woman from a working class neighborhood, De Vries aphoristic writing belies a vengeful reversal of roles in