Rare Space

"Leslie Anne Mcilroy’s Rare Space is a stunning collection of poems, daring, taut, sexually alive, and politically astute. A myriad of familiar themes becomes incandescent under her unflinching gaze. We’re invited to look closely at family, sex, race, physical disability, psychic pain and what it is to be a young American woman at the beginning of a new century facing down old ills like racism, classism, and misogyny armed with little more than a laptop and an indomitable will. Rare Space is a new American poetry at its absolute best."