VIRGINS by Jesse Darling Ruth Stacey Orlam follows Ira and the

Orlam follows Ira and the inhabitants of Underwhelm month by month through the last year of her childhood innocence

a home for the speaker

’ – Moris Farhi

“In this gorgeous debut

VIRGINS by Jesse Darling Ruth Stacey Orlam follows Ira and theThey say we arent built for it. This species or another. Crewcut & fatigued, a swollen head on the box says thin lipped, When most people talk about killing, they are like virgins talking about sex. Experiential and mapped, VIRGINS takes us on car rides, through hotel rooms and up close to meat viscera and enamel structures. Oscillating through binaries, concepts of innocence and experience are dragged by their creaturely haunches by gathered clumps