Department Store of Futures by Lauren Garland Irene Koronas and detailed evocation

and detailed evocation

And does anything ever actually change for people like Maria

talks about foreign-language processing of inherited historical trauma

The collection’s heart is an extended erasure of Henry James’s The Beast in the Jungle

and how powerfully these can come to rhythm the life of the mind and the emotions

Department Store of Futures by Lauren Garland Irene Koronas and detailed evocationIn Department Store of Futures, Lauren Garland crafts a lyrical exploration of longing, fertility, and the nuanced ache of loss. Through a kaleidoscope of imagined and remembered spaces, Garland's poems invite readers to journey alongside a speaker contemplating potential futures amidst the raw realities of pregnancy and infertility. These reflections blend with visions of places both tangible and ephemeral homes left behind, the haunting allure of