Larissa Pham is an artist and writer in Brooklyn, New York. Her essays have appeared in The Paris Review, Guernica, Bookforum, Art in America, and elsewhere.
The closest thing we get to a precept in Somebody with a Little Hammer is that we should all try to learn to think for ourselves—and, even then, things can go wrong.
Eleanor Chai’s poems require delving below the surface of each compact, enjambment-packed stanza, forcing the reader through a process of discovery not unlike Chai’s own origin story.
