JULIET (II) was selected by Nostrovia! Poetry as one of the three winners in their recent NYC Poetry Festival chapbook contest. Click here to pre-order!

“Sarah Xerta’s JULIET (II) is a harrowing new kind of post-apocalyptic narrative where the desolate landscape being explored is the poet’s own skin and bones. This powerful continuation to 2014’s JULIET (I) is written in second person since ‘you don’t know who that girl is. You call her Juliet because she is dead,’ & this has the effect of both exposing the profound disembodiment that accompanies trauma and sublimating the autobiographical to clear a space in which Juliet becomes a sort of everywoman, or everyperson, of survival. Stunning, unforgettable, and nauseatingly real, Sarah Xerta’s words make the kind of poems you’d gather up in your arms to hold, if physical intimacy were still an option.” –Sonya Vatomsky 

“Reading Juliet (II) is like getting set on fire. It’s burning and painful, savage and beautiful, and the words singe themselves white hot into your brain. Sarah Xerta is a poet who clearly writes with the purest of motivations – because she has to, because there’s simply no other way to make sense of what it means to be alive in this world.” –Juliet Escoria