Like humid Ohio summers, often wistful and lovely, but also heavy and heightened, Naming a Dying Thing by Vic Nogay is a sticky collection. At times a confrontation, at others an abdication, the poems within this offering reckon with the roles of women and mothers in a society that demands they be somehow everything and nothing all at once. The poems of Naming a Dying Thing contemplate and subvert success and failure in love, holding a marriage up to a hostile American reality. There are no answers here, for the author or for readers. There is just life. Vic Nogay is a Pushcart Prize and Best Microfiction nominated writer from Ohio. She is the author of the micropoetry chapbook under fire under water (tiny wren, 2022) and is the microeditor of Identity Theory. With Naming a Dying Thing, Nogay addresses a myriad of topics, including pregnancy, motherhood, miscarriage, child loss, abortion, reproductive injustices, gun violence, climate change, marriage, relationships, memory, and nostalgia, often mirrored in the native wildlife of the author's beloved Ohio home.