The Cumulus Effect alternates between the act of forgetting and the tumult of remembering. Minimalist, but insistently mercurial, the poems move through American and European cities: seduction in an Neoclassical palace in Saint Petersburg; a “hindsight of blood” in New York City; late-summer longing in Berlin’s Senefelder Platz. The Cumulus Effect sets on the page a prismatic and complex topography of the body forever en route.

J. MAE BARIZO is a prize-winning poet, critic, and performer. She is the recipient of fellowships and awards from Bennington College, the Jerome Foundation, and Poets House. She lives in New York City.