In Some Other Epic Battles, Rhonda Douglas invites us to reckon with personal and family history, with loss, with broken relationships, with connection and intimacy, with desire and lust. This collection is a rich gathering of potent emotional, psychological, and deeply sensual, physical themes. With each subject – from the all-to-real loss of a brother to the anticipated loss of a lover, grief over how the world processed the pandemic or delight in the opening of new love – Douglas offers us poems that crack apart our sense of self and the self-made world.