In This Distance Volume 39

“Brooke Sahni pulls off the damn near impossible with this book: elegant, precise, and piercingly aware poems about love and the erotic. A lot of poets treat these subjects as kryptonite. Those who tackle them usually fall into traps. Not here. Sahni’s brilliant exploration is unflinching and unearths a goldmine of wisdom, one as luminous as it is enthralling.” - Hayan Charara, author of These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit

“Brooke Sahni’s In This Distance gathers the great branches of existence—love, family, connection; hunger, spirit, ritual; risk, betrayal, loss—into the pyre of sensuality. It’s a stirring collection of odes (and O!) to Esther Perel and Audre Lorde, two of our culture’s foremost goddess-scholars of desire, alongside 21st century love poems: Sahni’s work is intimate, pansexual, feminist, self-aware, fragmented, orgasmic. In This Distance is a carnal prayer book full of lines as beautifully wrought as bobbin lace, lines of ‘sacred tenderness’ and the blinding light of a woman surrendering to her own vast erotic power.” - Arielle Greenberg, author of I Live in the Country & Other Dirty Poems