Kristine Ong Muslim is a contemporary goddess of poetry. She compels us to enter unique realms of metaphorical magnanimity to spaces--here and now--of sociological profundity. Her style is varied yet marked by manifest visions. Muslim's verse exudes a distinguished type of deliverance that exalts the reader into an enlightened being of reprieve."The ocean is an oversized boat, which is also a ripple, which is/also a memory of a submerged continent.""This girl collects shipwrecks and coffee mugs,/green bottles and bone folders--things which/cannot be inherited."