Books

Colby Cotton’s haunting debut chronicles the aftermath of a childhood friend who dies by suicide and the community left in its wake. In dreamlike landscapes, Cotton estranges settings as varied as fields, rose gardens, snowy observatories, and a long line to enter the afterlife in poems that blur the ...

The collection draws on the genres of reportage, travelogue, family history, and a philosophical reflection on war’s ecstatic, frenzied humanity. Rather than focus on the familiar formula “war is hell,” it aims to capture a feeling of wonder at the resilience and persistence of war as a form of ...

Purchase is for those who are grieving, who feel frightened by the world’s meanness, who are solitary. It is for those who, even in the midst of mourning, find themselves distracted from despair by the natural world. It is for everyone looking to find comfort and understanding. From a ...

Longlist, The 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize | Longlist, 2025 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry | One of Financial Times‘s Best Summer Poetry Books of 2024 The poems in Oksana Maksymchuk’s debut English-language collection meditate on the changing sense of reality, temporality, mortality, and intimacy in the face of a catastrophic event. While some ...