Killing Spree

First published 2026

Reception

Rave reviews. 8 of 8 critics gave a rave.

Rave 8 · Positive 0 · Mixed 0 · Pan 0

“In our historical moment, the question is not only what poetry can do, but whether it can make experience legible at all.”

The New York Times Book Review · Sandra Simonds · Rave

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“Killing Spree puts into words what many of Graham’s fellow Americans have yet to understand, namely that the condition of being ungrievable—precarious, disposable—in the eyes of those who wield the…”

New York Review of Books · Anahid Nersessian · Rave
“In this new collection, prevarications turn in on themselves, and any clarity of reasoning is undermined by uncertainty in the very act of the utterance.”

Los Angeles Review of Books · Evangeline Riddiford Graham · Rave