The Thomas Salto Seven Rooms The fantasy of nature and/or

The fantasy of nature and/or art as echoes of a purer creation reinforces this foundation all the more

Gboyega Odubanjo

becoming all matter— soot

" then what does all this dispossession feel like

The Thomas Salto Seven Rooms The fantasy of nature and/orTimmy Straw The ambitious and astonishing debut poetry collection by Timmy Straw, The Thomas Salto forms its poetics in the shadow of the Soviet Union, the AIDS epidemic, US proxy wars, and the motion of a dangerous gymnastics move popularized during the Cold War the "Thomas salto." The Thomas Salto takes its name from a difficult and dangerous move in gymnastics, a leaping triple flip popularized during the last years of the Cold War. Both in its