(I first have to admit I thought I was requesting a book by Courtney Queeney, a poet I fell in love with when I was getting my MFA.)

I love Maggie Queeney's sense of form--there's a playfulness to it that I respect but also musculature to the work that she's producing.

Thank you NetGalley and University of Iowa Press for the chance to read and review this ARC.

Poetry is completely personal, and unfortuntetly, while I believed I would enjoy Maggie Queeney's book, I just wasn't able to get through this. This is not the authors fault; I just didn't vibe with the collection the way I thought I'd be able to. While I did like Gorgoneia, I felt like I liked excerpts from most poems more than I liked full poems in the collection.

**Thank you to NetGalley and the author for the eARC of this title**

I really enjoyed this collection as a whole and especially appreciated the longer length of the poems. Maggie Queeney definitely dove into language here and I enjoyed the literary devices she employed throughout this collection.

So often I find books of poetry that are short little fragments - I loved the expansiveness of these poems and found that they made me go back and reread sections to further my understanding of the collection as a whole.

Definitely check this one out!!

I really enjoyed this collection of poetry. It is definitely a book I think I'll need to go back and reread to absorb fully. I enjoyed the strong imagery, it felt very impactful.

What truly sets "In Kind" apart is Queeney's ability to explore complex themes with grace and precision. Her poems delve into the depths of human emotions, from love and longing to grief and resilience. With a delicate touch, she navigates these intricate emotions, offering solace, understanding, and a sense of shared humanity through her poems.

I finished this collection a couple of days ago and have not stopped thinking about it since. The pure raw emotion that Maggie was able to write about is truly what poetry is all about. Pushing the envelope the experimental way the poems were laid out, I have no other way of describing it other than, it just made sense! The pull the poems have on the mind is just captivating. Haunting, powerful, and impossible to forget.

The poems I connected with were:
Alterations
What Color You Would Be If You Could Be Any Color
Dead Reckoning

These were the ones that I have not stopped thinking about and will be with me for a long time. Maggie's depiction of surviving trauma and the cost of enduring it in a complicated household is nothing but breathtaking.

Final Thoughts: I would recommend reading these poems out loud, I felt the greatest impact when I was actually able to hear the words aloud. This is a great collection to anyone who has been in the poetry space and would like to explore newer poets.

this is a really powerful and beautiful book of poetry. The author pulls in a lot of powerful imagery, using things that are common in our day to day lives to evoke emotions not usually associated with those items.

In Kind is an interesting and moving collection of poetry that uses Ovid’s Metamorphoses as a template for framing survival. The poetry is not what I expected. It unfolds across the page in experimental ways. The poet is well read in mythology and uses old stories to spin new ones, offering a spiritual recreation from the pains and triumphs of the mythic past. The words sing with emotion and many of the images will stay with me.