Eternal Worm by Ezra Chiu WW Norton & Co The selection of Kholin’s poems

The selection of Kholin’s poems features self-deprecating self-portraits

you will retrieve a spark of personal power in your belly

followed by a gig from the Pogues

There are poems that speak most movingly of moments of acute self-reflection

Alongside poems in praise of the naivety of youth

Eternal Worm by Ezra Chiu WW Norton & Co The selection of Kholin’s poemsEternal Worm by Ezra Chiu is a short, unnervingly intimate pamphlet that works through compressed lyric fragments to examine the textures of dependency, disordered embodiment, and queer attachment. The pamphlet sets its erotic and domestic material against a scriptural frame of abhorred flesh, though the register it actually inhabits is closer to the abject tender: tapeworms, discharge, ants in water, pear rot, a microwaved bloomer rolled in sugar in