“In a collection that reads simultaneously like apologia & manifesto, Dani Putney’s Swallow Whole excavates the persona’s race, biculturalism, non-binary status, sex life, & so much more. . . . Abuse lurks in each corner, but imagination snakes around until the persona inherits their mother & takes after Walt Whitman. . . . But the love stories are imagined & reimagined until we are filled with wonder & pain, until the persona can see their own grave. As a bicultural child myself, I recognize home & these ghosts, such beauty as they are, yet sit agape at the liminal-made-empyrean. The writing in this collection undulates with the rhythm of sublime appetite, & Putney’s collection has mastered that space of ‘destruction’ & ‘remaking.’ If you are hungry or halved, Putney’s Swallow Whole is vital reading. & even if you are just fine, the book welcomes you, beckons even, asking, ‘What language do you need me to be in?’”

—Nahal Suzanne Jamir, author of In the Middle of Many Mountains

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