Cracks in my Calm, on the Near Side

Dr Q brings us a new collection of poems, Cracks In My Calm, written with blunt honesty and unflinching frankness, exposing the reader to the cracks that fracture the orderliness of everyday life with absurdity. She treats the absurd and the humdrum equally and refuses to sanitize the human experience.She navigates the tense spaces where the mundane slams into the memorable and transforms everyday duties into moments of off-kilter glee, laced with quiet derangement.Exam room indignities, bodily embarrassments, and train rides are highlighted as human follies. Drawing on psychology and theology, Dr Q peels back the layers of wallpaper and human frailties to reveal twisted details and delivers them with a deadpan deftness.Brace yourself for the collisions, as Dr Q's documented wreckage demonstrates that life is messy, mechanical, and sometimes flaccid.