Nina Corwin's Dear Future is a tour of the bright circus that awaits us. Humorous and somber, playful and dark, Corwin offers the future as preview, as marketing campaign, as something that might be listening so we can tell it what we need. There is urgency here, and "the need to name on the table of my tongue." Here are stock tips and packing tips for the apocalypse. Here is a future we can bear because Corwin has helped us see the pleasures and sorrows coming for us.

--Traci Brimhall, author of Saudade