This week, Managing Editor Krista Cox shares her 5 favorite books featured on The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed in 2023, and shares a new selection from each.
First up: space neon neon space by luna rey hall, released by Variant Lit in 2022, which was chosen by guest editor JJ Rowan.
common blue violet
grandma nothing left but lungs.
damn, even those rancid & pocked
with blue violets. like an old field,
she remnant. full of new growth.
the bad kind.
when i tell her of my growth,
she say it the good kind.
hold my hand, hers’ freckled
& bloomed veins. hold my hand,
the squeeze all the tightness
& hope she can muster.
luna rey hall is a queer trans writer. they are the author of four books including the upcoming novella-in-verse the patient routine (Brigids Gate Press, 2023). her poems have appeared in The Florida Review, The Rumpus, & Raleigh Review, among others.
JJ Rowan (they/them) is a queer nonbinary writer and dancer. Their poems, not-poems, and interactive performances have appeared in the tiny, Dream Pop Journal, 45th Parallel, and at the SMOL Fair and the Splinter Collective’s Interrupted by Trains, among others. Their most recent chapbook is a simple verb (Bloof Books). They are on the editorial team at just femme & dandy. You can sign up for their newsletter, actual motion, at their website.
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