All the Lifters

All the Lifters is a searing exploration of female sexuality told in hyper-charged poetic language. Esther Mazakian captures the intensity of obsession and desire in a distinctive voice that singes across the page as quickly as thought, following its strange and electrifying associative leaps from memory to reflection to immediate sense experience, synapse by synapse. This unforgettable debut collection encodes private cruelties, seduction, and the nightmarish reaches of psychic pain in a language so visceral and fresh that Mazakian’s readers cannot help but to take note of the arrival of a remarkable new voice.