Gwendal Cottin Ribald by Alina Stefanescu, Bull City Press Inch #44, 2020 Reviewed by Lannie Stabile “Your mom can die, but that birder will keep walking down the street, whistling as you piss your pants.” For such a tiny book, Alina Stefanacu’s Ribald , a micro-collection of essays, demands a lot of unpacking. Let us snap open Grandma’s antique trunk, and what will we find? A handful of gravel, a pocketknife, a stressed horse, a gauntlet and sword, a scream, a cold beer wit