In CONFESSIONAL, Azula Margaret Jaggar paints an Eve who saves departing love from total loss, cradling her remaining ribs. She deftly portrays intimacy, sacrifice, and sensuality through ekphrastic eyes both with and without pupils. Jaggar's ready wit gifts us a ripe fig, fed on the sting and wasp of a relationship that serves to grow new iterations of love. -Amy Baskin, author of NIGHT HAG and SKULL