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Winner, 2023 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry | Named an Anchorage Daily News Favorite Book of 2024 | Longlist, 2024 Julie Suk Award Landscape and language drive the poems in Absent Here, which explore loss, community, the changing environment, and whiteness of skin and scenery against the backdrop of the Alaskan North Slope of the ...

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 ...

Winner, 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award | Winner, 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award | Finalist, 2015 NAACP Image Awards | Finalist, 2015 National Book Award | Named to The Atlantic’s Best American Poetry of the 21st Century List Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the seasons, the ...