Phantom Number: An Abecedarium for April King Arthur Baking Company Page size: 7 x 6

Page size: 7 x 6

And who is the mysterious Skull-man who warns of death if the show goes on with one of Marion's offbeat endings

cutthroat reality TV-style betrayals and ever-shifting alliances

do NOT go down to the mango tree

Her choices are stark: accept her duty to her family or embark on a sensuous journey of self-discovery

Phantom Number: An Abecedarium for April King Arthur Baking Company Page size: 7 x 6Poems that ask an urgent question: how might a white friend write in protest of intimate Black death without becoming complicit in the commodification of Black trauma? Phantom Number listens for an absent voice. To survive and answer to her best friend and fellow poet April Freely's death, Spring Ulmer rips meaning apart in her poems, then repairs it, only to rip it up again. Words bend, meaning shifts abstraction a tool Ulmer wields to better get at