Notes on Swimming by Arthur Lawson Bohdan Piasecki the Book of Jonah occupies

the Book of Jonah occupies a unique and awkward space in scripture

a gust of wind

items of correspondence

the voiceless speaks

failing that

Notes on Swimming by Arthur Lawson Bohdan Piasecki the Book of Jonah occupiesNotes on Swimming, Arthur Lawson's debut pamphlet, draws the queer self into a sustained nautical idiom in which bodies dissolve into sand, sink like whales, or wake feathered as swans. Across these poems, domestic interiors become submarines and kettles boil into oceanic dioramas, the marine world functioning less as setting than as the available vocabulary for dissociation, suppression and grief. Lawson moves between intimate address and oblique