Life-Changing Poems Every Woman Should Read
The acclaimed poet and author of
Orchidelirium and
The Last Usable Hour, Deborah Landau shares
the poems that can change how we
think—and see the world.
By Deborah Landau
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The Game of Boxes: Poems
By Catherine Barnett
88 pages;
Graywolf Press
These lucid, nuanced poems implore us to "marvel at
the visible." Children try to understand the "mystery" of
growing older and a handsome pharmacist prescribes a lonely woman the moon as a
kind of balm. In the process, Barnett reveals the happiness that exists
despite—and alongside—the inevitability of loss.
"Welcome, traveler!" she writes. "You might as well stay a while
and kneel to happiness."
— Deborah Landau
Published 06/05/2014
