Poet Amanda Dettmann reviewed Head of Island Beautification for the Rural Outlands in the Fall 2023 issue of The Cafe Review.
“These persona prose poems push us to imperfectly observe and participate in the ancient sounds of ocean life within a backdrop of family secrets and unanswered silences. With grief disguised as a “good sauce,” Navicky bends time between the living and the dead like a crab listening to the hum of her ancestors through her own seaweed–slicked shell.”
