PositiveLos Angeles Review\"Kai Carlson-Wee’s debut poetry collection Rail—a brave examination of the self through the lenses of travel, desperation, and depression—is an exodus from old identity and a restless search for new signifiers of self ... Fire, the ultimate signifier in this collection, denotes the temporality of life and permanence of its impact. These elements and others speed through Rail with the force of a freightliner, revealing at last the burning glow of the self.\
