Jessy Randall’s 2018 poetry release How to Tell If You Are Human contains 29 black-and-white, grayscale, or full-color diagram poems, encompassing a dizzying range of personal experiences. By calmly exploring and analyzing mental illness, isolation, and multiple facets of human relationships, Randall’s speaker helps to raise our understanding of the bewildering set of interactions a person must navigate on a daily basis to function in American society. Commendably, she accomplishes these observations, all the while touching upon the spirit of the iconic 1990s Nirvana album Nevermind. In a brief 78 pages of verse, observations, and illustrations, the reader is left with a humming sense of his own disconnected state, coupled with the realization that this unique predicament is universal and, in fact, entirely disconcerting. How to Tell If You Are Human is divided into three parts: “They Finally Figured Out What’s Wrong With You,” “How to Tell If You Are Human,” and “Be Yourself (But Not Too Much).” The opening piece (all are untitled), centered above a response-focused bar graph, resembles a question found on a psychological evaluation test, only much more involved, specific, and disturbingly personal. As the reader examines the piece, he is actually faced with a series continue...