Tantrums in the Air

Tantrums in Air is a brilliant, rivetingly original collection of poems, careening between high-femme camp performance, paranormal incantation, and sparkling dispatches from a mind mid-thought. These poems are obsessed with surfaces: those we touch and penetrate and barter, yes, but especially those we make using language, with its “blueblack liquid” and “opalescent scars” and “hooks and eyes / That open worlds.” For my money, Emily Skillings is simply one of the most exciting poets writing today. —Maggie Millner