Broadsides to Books: Mythic Witness in Rocket Fantastic
Rocket Fantasticby Gabrielle CalvocoressiPersea Books, 2017ISBN: 978-0-89255-492-8$14.83, purchase at bookshop.orgReview by Rachel M. Dillon If I were to take a rocket to outer space, I’d want it to be the liberatory, tender, deftly-crafted machine Gabrielle Calvocoressi builds in Rocket Fantastic, their third poetry collection. In a range of forms, these interlocking, carefully ordered poems explore concepts of gender and sexuality, identity and perception, and mythical ways of engaging with—and sometimes becoming—other beings when labels …