Compression & Purity Short Story Collection Lucky Cat or ‘Maneki-Neko’ is

Lucky Cat or ‘Maneki-Neko’ is a common Japanese figurine believed to bring good luck

Selected for the Texas Bluebonnet Master List

In a few short hours

This book will target women

are like theirs until she realizes that her eyes are like her mother’s

Compression & Purity Short Story Collection Lucky Cat or ‘Maneki-Neko’ isby Will Alexander African American surrealism that extends from the ocean floor to the outer reaches of space. The fifth volume of our Spotlight poetry series, Compression & Purity is a new collection of poetry by Los Angelesbased African American surrealist Will Alexander. Known for densely textured visionary epics influenced by poets like Aim Csaire and Csar Vallejo, Alexander here returns to shorter forms to address his ecological, cosmological,