SAPPHO TERROR Mikael Johani edited by Alex Balgiu and

edited by Alex Balgiu and Mónica de la Torre

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accessible voice — 29 “tangos” of narrative verse that take us vividly through erotic

and "high walk[s] into fantasy"

SAPPHO TERROR Mikael Johani edited by Alex Balgiu andMaura Modeya Maura Modeyas SAPPHO TERROR is a book hauntedby empire, by sleeplessness, by Sappho herself. In it, queerness becomes both the agent of terror and its object. I want to be consumed. I want to disappear twice. Extending the experiments of Mayer, Lonidier, and Stein, Modeyas poems are as much about desire as they are about violence. They let us in on a secret: Logic sometimes is so disgusting. At once delirious and hyperalert, performance