Girlhood, womanhood, motherhood. Sylvia Plath & Lizzie Siddel. Moses as a baby. Italy & London. The self as an exfoliating selkie. Jenny Benjamin has me scratching my head: “How did she manage to arrange so much, so exquisitely, in such a small space?” This is a magical, living book that deepens with every careful reading. It invites us at the onset: “Sit down at my table. I’ll flip forever/ like a figure eight. I’ll let you look / at me for as long as it takes.” –Mauricio Kilwein Guevara, author of Autobiography of So-and-so: Poems in Prose