Pills and Jacksonvilles

Weise displays a knack for blending personal anecdote with cultural critique in her energetic latest (after Cyborg Detective). The “cyborg”—and technology’s relationship to humanity—remains a motif throughout. A letter to the reader explains the poet’s project: “I’ve been stuck in ye ole nondisabled forms. So I’m inventing new ones. The poems live double lives: on the page and off the page.” Accessibility is a major concern, and Weise writes about its stakes with originality and spirit: “for some poems, I put my access first. I call this move, centering the disabled writer’s access before all others, cygo.ergo.nomix, with the dots in it so you know how to say.” The opening poem, “A Very Kind Note to Some Poets,” asks, “What are you keeping out of your poems? And why?” The highly contemporary allusions and references include Submittable, Facebook, and hashtags (the poem “Tag, You’re It” is an arranged list of hashtags around the book’s central considerations: “#AbleismExists/ #NotUsExactlyBut/ #AccessIsLove”). Standout entries include “DMS With Corbett O’Toole,” which blends humor and pathos to remarkable effect: “I’m lost and all my goods/ are perishable. Help!” The result is a wry and inventive collection. (Sept.)