I Love You, Call Me Back

“I Love You, Call Me Back is such a towering testament to the human condition, which rings and echoes louder and longer now, after a year of distance, a year of sometimes isolation. This book reminded me of how to come back into myself, how to come back into a world that will maybe be more gentle than before. But even if it isn’t, I’m more ready for it now than I was before finding these poems.”
—Hanif Abdurraqib, New York Times bestselling author of Go Ahead in the Rain
 
“Sabrina Benaim is a magician when it comes to writing about heartache in a way that evaporates the heartache of the reader. It’s been years since I’ve read anything that so fully captures the pulse of solitude, and the undying connections that live beneath its ache. I Love You, Call Me Back feels genre-less in the very best of ways, a poetry collection-meets a memoir in verse-meets a love letter to the wrecking ball that shatters all of the walls between us. Time slowed down when I read these words. I’d look up from the page and notice a hundred details about my surroundings that I hadn’t noticed before. I am more HERE because of this book, and I can’t think of a greater gift to my life than that.”
—Andrea Gibson, author of Take Me with You and Lord of the Butterflies

“Poet Sabrina Benaim’s second collection is fantastic… Her poems circle loneliness, plants that look like Shrek ears, anxiety, and love.”
—Zibby Owens for Katie Couric Media

“[T]his vulnerable collection focuses on the little, specific moments of sadness of missing someone; the isolation so many felt throughout 2020; and a raw, deep reminder that we cannot have joy without sorrow.”
—Buzzfeed