Ransack Anna Benn and from scarlet women to

and from scarlet women to imperial purple

alchemy and more

As Brando Yelavich of Wildboy fame (Penguin 2015) explains: "armed with a crossbow

woodturning

and mine had poppies as red as fire

Ransack Anna Benn and from scarlet women toIn ransack, essa may ranapiri addresses the difficulty of assembling and understanding a fractured, unwieldy self through an inherited languagea language whose assumptions and expectations ultimately make it inadequate for such a task. These poems seek richer, less hierarchical sets of words to describe ways of being. Punctuated by a sequence of letters to Virginia Woolfs character Orlando, this immersive collection is about discovering, articulating,