PositiveThe Village VoiceTea's book plants a flag by vigorously continuing the legacies of feminist writers like Eileen Myles, Maggie Nelson, and Audre Lorde ... both a sprawling ode to the people who have filled Tea's life as a poet and LGBT activist, and an earnest introspection on writing, addiction, love, and political violence ... Tea harnesses the tension born of the book's hybrid form to offer candid, even analytical, meditations on what life as a queer artist can be like ... the shift toward the apocalypse can feel abrupt, distracting from the myriad and rich lives Tea has already painted so well ... Black Wave is a testament to the power that opens up when a writer dismantles the rigid borders of social hierarchies, and of genre.
