A stirring, brilliantly crafted collection, Linda Gregerson's third volume of poetry examines mortality in all its beauty and horror. Fluently rendered in Gregerson's distinctive three-line stanzas, these poems explore subjects from autism to genealogy to ecology. Their occasions are diverse -- a barn fire, a wounded deer, a child's determined struggle with a bicycle -- but their instinct is always to wrest from the impure world a vernacular of praise.
How does a poet find praise in a world marked by both beauty and horror?
- Award-Winning Poetry: Winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award, this collection showcases the masterful craft and intellectual rigor that has made Linda Gregerson one of her generation’s most acclaimed voices.
- Poems about History and Memory: From the trials of New England colonists to the quiet grief of a family, these poems traverse centuries to find the human heart of the past.
- Unflinching Look at Mortality: A wounded deer, a barn fire, a child’s illness—Gregerson confronts the difficult moments of life and death with precision and grace.
- Nature and Ecology: The collection finds profound meaning in the natural world, from a river that “makes some difference” to the complex life of a rural landscape.