Glaring: a sustained look of anger, an obvious fact, a situation of such brightness and intensity that vision is obscured. In his debut book of poems, Benjamin Krusling is concerned with reading domination and violence and entering their psychotic motion, the better to do otherwise. Through the thicket of anti-blackness, militarism, surveillance, impoverishment, and interpersonal abuse and violence,Glaringinvestigates the things that haunt daily life and make love difficult, possible, necessary.

Benjamin Krusling'sGlaring is the winner of our 2019 Open Reading Period Book Prize, and was selected by guest judge Lucy Ives. It is the first book in the Passage Series.