Poetry. Winner of the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize 2016. "With a naturalist's precision, a subtle sense of the way the line pushes its music against silence, and with great emotional restraint, the poet of AFTER studies the world--the spathes of skunk cabbage, windfall apples--and finds there the lineaments of grief, a lexicon for his own nearly unbearable loss. But it's no accident this book opens with a poem to Keats, who understood that beauty which carries the news of sorrow is still beauty, still a source of joy. ...
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Poetry. Winner of the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize 2016. "With a naturalist's precision, a subtle sense of the way the line pushes its music against silence, and with great emotional restraint, the poet of AFTER studies the world--the spathes of skunk cabbage, windfall apples--and finds there the lineaments of grief, a lexicon for his own nearly unbearable loss. But it's no accident this book opens with a poem to Keats, who understood that beauty which carries the news of sorrow is still beauty, still a source of joy. AFTER is an artfully made, intelligent and aching embodiment of a question that can't be answered: is the lovely persistence of the world a source of consolation or of deeper grief?"--Mark Doty
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