BLURBS FOR ABLATION
Here they are. Deep, deep sincere thanks to Hanif Abdurraqib, Paula Cisewski, Elisa Gabbert, Jenny Irish, Joe Hall, Matt Hart, Eric Pankey, and Sun Yung Shin for writing these beautiful, thoughtful blurbs for Ablation . ** Ablation is stunning in its inventiveness and shape, the touchability of both text and image combine to form a strikingly rich book. It was exhilarating to spend time with. – Hanif Abdurraqib , author of A Little Devil in America (Random House, 2021) ** In Ablation , Danika Stegeman LeMay finds a form, a ‘grief box’ to contain all the wounds and repairs we live and die through, their delicate debris—the torn and cut edges, pins and needles, buttons and string. This is a quiet yet viscerally felt book about pain and personal history, the ‘relentless’ work of time. ‘If I’m / haunted,’ she writes, ‘then I’m / loved.’” – Elisa Gabbert , author of Normal Distance (Soft Skull Press, 2022) ** I am reminded in reading Danika Stegeman LeMay’s Ablation of another compl