I drank once for the want of it, twice to be rid of it.
I drank the first time because I was afraid to drink the second time.
I drank the first time to prepare myself to drink the second time.
I drank the first time so I had to drink less the second time.
I drank the first time without knowing so the second was my first time.
I drank once to be recruited, twice to recruit others.
Drank, Recruited is about knowing through thirsting; drinking through wanting. Love as a silken rug which stretches from thought to fact so that there be aliveness where there is certainty, and life where there is fact. With a voice of eruptive sincerity and intimate incisiveness these poems are scenarios of language-making and relation.

Ami Xherro is a poet, artist and educator originally from Tirana, Albania, and currently based in Toronto. She is the author of a chapbook, The Unfinished Flame of the Lower Oceans (Swimmers Group, 2017), and other poems. She holds a BA and MA in Comparative Literature from the University of Toronto. Drank, Recruited is her debut poetry collection.

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