what is fascinating about this collection is the way it gives us an entire life of writing, an entire life of discovery, in miniature

In this debut collection, the speaker is a ballerina—full of control and beauty, poise and restriction—who loses her mother, her romantic partner, and—for a time—her own identity.

In the end, what I love most about this book is how it drives itself and how it drives the reader to finish it.

Carr’s work is at once philosophical and technically precise in a way that is all too rare in contemporary poetry.

Presented as a series of compact, carefully crafted prose pieces, this magnificent sequence poses compelling aesthetic questions to the reader

There is loss, there is struggle in these poems, but there is also the capacity for great beauty and joy.

And therein lies the beauty of Schultz’s work. If he did not love the world so deeply, he could not be so deeply angry with it for its failures, its horrors, or its disappointments.

For as much as poetry concerns itself with the various forms of eternity—Keats’s “A thing of beauty is a joy forever,” Shakespeare’s “Not marble, nor the gilded monuments of time / Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme”—the practice of poetry also initiates us into the ongoing fact of daily existence.

This collection travels the breadth of the universe and the human, leaving us searching our own experiences for such richness.