Raging with vivid, smoky lyricism and full-blooded imagery, Kaycee Hill's poems are both a beginning and a continuation. Reflecting on her life and those in it, as well as first-times, underground scenes and the female body, she looks towards what is unflinchingly personal, and also outwards: towards family and strangers, nature and place, and a world that shapeshifts before us.
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From my bedroom window, I turn tostanding stone, solidifying the imagelike a painter, or a thief.- MUSE
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(@BloodaxeBooks, 19 October 2023, e-galley, 80 pages, ARC from the publisher via @Weiss_squadUK)
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I really enjoyed Hot Sauce. I loved the title and the front cover. I enjoyed all of the poems in this collection. The poems all have great imagery, sparse at times but intense, vivid and very, very descriptive. The poems cover a range of themes and I found them very relatable. I especially liked A Caged Thing Freed, Night Shift, Fresh Set and Strip Tease.
