cover image All Around What Empties Out

All Around What Empties Out

Linh Dinh. Subpress, $12 (104pp) ISBN 978-1-930068-19-3

Following up on the short stories of Fake House, Linh Dinh compiles three coveted, lacerating chapbooks in All Around What Empties Out. From the hilarious and horrific rhetorical questions of ""Drunkard Boxing"" (""My hump for your glasses?"") to the withering stanzas and paragraphs of ""A Small Triumph Over Lassitude"" (""wildlife frolicking at ground level"") and the definitely half full ""A Glass of Water"" (""Baby I'm not a dictionary bloated I-Ching""), the cover's translucent toilet seat is just the beginning.