Infections of Loss by Rushika Wick
Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice Summer 2025 Alex Reed Their style virtuosically transfigures substance

Their style virtuosically transfigures substance in a new language

and The Interpreter’s House among others

Its second part stuns with tenderness

Rice reaches back to the absurd cruelties of history

The poet inhabits the voice of a goldfish through a series of linguistically experimental poems which plunge us into the glass bowl and invite us to gaze out

Infections of Loss by Rushika Wick<br><b>Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice Summer 2025</b> Alex Reed Their style virtuosically transfigures substanceRushika Wick's Infections of Loss is a searing exploration of how the past imprints itself on the body, weaving threads of harm and resilience through time and space. Through vivid, haunting poetry, the collection navigates the reverberations of adversity, documenting the unspoken hauntings of personal and collective histories. Here, eulogies meet acts of witness and moments of tentative reconciliation. Each piece ripples outward, charting how pain,