"Cast often through fairytale and myth, Erin Adair-Hodges’s new collection audaciously examines a contemporary experience of womanhood. Every Form of Ruin is a scalpel, exposing various forms of gendered violence, the vicissitudes and joys of wifedom and motherhood (‘momming’ as the poet brilliantly neologizes), and the power of sisterhood and of claiming the self in all its multitudes. There is so much in the craft of these poems equally to admire and revel in, including Adair-Hodges’s seemingly effortlessly inventive turns of image, line, and phrase. Her tone and the voice of these poems is also a wonder, at once irreverent, funny, biting, and downright sad. While the poems square themselves against ruin, they are actually resplendent, coming to us as they do, from ‘a country in which the poet is the only citizen so, also, its queen.’"
—Shara McCallum, author of Madwoman and No Ruined Stone

"If you’ve ever been crammed into a box with a word like ‘woman’ or ‘girl’ or ‘mother’ or ‘bossy’ or ‘bitch’ scribbled on the side, these poems are for you. If you’ve fought yourself exhausted and then gotten up to fight some more, this book is for you. If you love Clytemnestra’s courage and would have defended Iphigenia to the death too, if you know how Cassandra has been talked over and over or have called upon the Erinyes in your hour of need, these are the poems you’ve been waiting for. And if you don’t know any of these legends yet, but want good company in your rage, Every Form of Ruin will thrill and console and inspire."
—Kathryn Nuernberger, author of RUE and The Witch of Eye