Mark Leidner

It’s so beautiful. I showed Being With You to my wife and she said, “I think his brain works kinda like mine.”

Under the Sea is a book of short stories about recontextualizing one's surroundings in the face of change, and what happens to us. Most of the protagonists feel like impostors or pretenders and encounter something larger than themselves which change them and their outlooks. This is woefully generic, because they're all pretty different, from dope deals to something like an ant-colony's hive mind to a literal void. I really liked *The Angel in the Dream of Our Hangover* and I really like this.

So good. How do you even start to summarize a book of aphorisms? They are known by their density. This one is very nice. I read it mostly in bed, with feet warmed by an electric blanket, half asleep, as all poetry should be read, so as to most broadly trigger meaning. It gave me comfort, discomfort, and warmth through hope.