Redefines the bestiary in fiery, insistent, and resistant terms to recast the turbulence of adolescence and chart new paths toward linguistic and bodily autonomy in adulthood.

Mag Gabbert's second chapbook offers her characteristic alloy of playfulness and emotional resonance while exploring its own unique formal approach to erasure. The Breakup consists of a single long poem separated into disconnected sections, each of which seeks to uncover the surreal-and sometimes even magical-layers of hidden narrative beneath life's most mundane and isolating moments. Selected by Kaveh Akbar as the winner of the 2022 Baltic Writing Residencies Chapbook Award, this collection excavates wings from drawings, ether from togetherness, and rain from the speaker's brain.

This thesis is a collection of original poetry written by Ashley Mag Gabbert. These poems explore the human experience, both emotional and physical. The cyclical, repetitive nature of the collection as a whole seeks to emulate the primal struggle with grief and obsession that each person must endure, and the axis upon which each piece turns is concept of rest--both literal and figurative. Individually, each poem explores the Confessional mode of poetry, one focused on narrative and the physical body; the language of the speaker is therefore direct and unadorned, and the use of imagery and metaphor is concise. Additionally, these poems exhibit a strong use of association, which allows for both supernatural and transformative movement throughout each singular piece as well as the entire collection.

Here, within these collected zines, you'll find enough spotted ponies to fill at least three large stables to the brim. Although, of course, you wouldn't have much luck coaxing them in there. No, instead, it's likely because of the free rein they've been given, because they've been cut loose, that so many spotted ponies seem to have chosen these poems as their breeding ground. We've never offered them much scrutiny; never subjected them to any polishing or meticulous adjustments. Each of our spotted ponies simply exists in its natural state, as a product of our own wild abandon.