Was It For This by Hannah Sullivan V. Press as one poem observes of

as one poem  observes of a glider riding a thermal

Shareen K Murayama’s debut collection

The Poem Is You: Sixty Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them is a guide to the diverse magnificences of American poetry today

which is a capacious world that seems only to widen as one reads her poems

Was It For This by Hannah Sullivan V. Press as one poem observes ofAn exhilarating second collection from the author of Three Poems, winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize and John Pollard Poetry Prize. Was It for This continues the project of Three Poems, offering a trenchant exploration of the ways we attempt to map our lives in space and time. But there is a reckoning, too, with the collective experience of historic event and present disaster. Tenants, the first poem, is fuelled by the particular anxieties of a mother of