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“Emily Brandt’s Falsehood takes the reader on enlightening turns in a suburban landscape, where the dilemma of binary constructs frame the journey, with grit in the light of surreal time, but every gesture sings true. At times, bold and risky, the poems defy anything codified or one-dimensional, always requiring the reader’s full engagement. An echo of contact—mind and body—resounds, and the truth in language lives after encounter. Though many-sided, each poem is always now.”

—Yusef Komunyakaa, author of The Emperor of Water Clocks

“We move through so much of life without a witness, I want Emily Brandt to be mine. Falsehood is a collection of everyday interactions and not normal situations that the world likes to call normal. And just when I thought no one was paying attention, here comes Brandt, she’s been absorbing and collecting the unacceptable norms built by the patriarchy all along. The result is Falsehood, a fierce translation and actualization of so many moments we assumed we were alone with. Brandt’s poetry is like a feminist sleeper cell, easing us out of isolation for a laugh before continuing our lifetime sentence of talk therapy and EMDR. Thank the goddess and the witness!”

—Sini Anderson, Director of The Punk Singer