From the jacket copy of Sally Ball’s new book of poems:

“Wreck Me is a primer of emotional violence—a primer because, as these unassumingly gorgeous poems know so well, we can only be beginners when we confront our wish to be seized, transported, remade….’We love / that ravishment,’ says Sally Ball of what we simultaneously fear and crave, ‘we trust it.’ These poems are ravishing.”
-James Longenbach

“Wreck Me is an entrancing collection. From the first line to the last, we are tugged into a sensibility and a world as familiar as our own world, and as strange. Sally Ball leaves no line unelectrified. Each poem feels finely wrought and completely newborn, which is exactly the point of poetry.”
-Laura Kasischke

Sally Ball is author of two poetry collections, including Annus Mirabilis (2005). Currently, she is an assistant professor of English at Arizona State University and associate director of Four Way Books. Her poem “Tributary” appeared in NER issue 29.2.

Wreck Me is available at Barrow Street Press and other booksellers.