Ylajali Hansen is a freelance writer who recently pushed westward from the East Coast and now dreams of pushing back the other way. She is a devotée of German novels, which she reads poolside in the land of permanent summer. She frequently contributes to Generation Bubble and The New Inquiry, and she keeps the culinary history blog The Austerity Kitchen.
A winning selection in the 2011 National Poetry Series, Julianne Buchsbaum’s The Apothecary’s Heir interrogates the wildness of nature, the decadence of urban sprawl, and the necessity of myth and…