pH tagada is a maximalist collection that runs language through the debris of contemporary life: brand names, dating apps, and the clinical prose of public-health letters. Its formal range is wide, moving from haiku-like compression to sprawling prose poems, and from mutating sestina to concrete pieces that burrow meaning into the page. Wonderling détourns literary and pop-cultural sources in funny, unsettling ways. Refusing a single stable register, the book oscillates between disgust and desire, silliness and compassion, enthusiasm and anxiety, while bodily excess and lyric feeling remain in uneasy proximity.
