JULIET (I), e-chap published by H_NGM_N Books, December 2014 (available for free download)

“This particular combination of delight in the universe and the speaker’s desire for death will remind many of Sexton. Yet Xerta has made the subject of depression, and the way it may present death as a constant choice, into wholly her own investigation of the way ’[her] bones are laced too tight…’” –Kate Partridge for Grazing Grain Press, January 

“Taking a few notes from Shakespeare’s tragic love story, Xerta’s new e-chapbook is part confession, part sexual journey, part feminist treatise. And it’s all knife-edge sharp, honest moments of pain pouring out of every line.“ –Tiffany Gibert for Time Out New York, December 2014

H_NGM_N Chapbook Questionnaire: JULIET (I), January 2015