Lives

2021 Winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry

"The book is intimate, expansive, and in moments, willfully hopeful."

--Victoria Chang, winner of the PEN Voelcker Award for OBIT

Here are poems with music matched to matter, so that reading them often involves both swoon and startle: "When it folds open, the rule-less rile / of sky," Evans, writes, "the comets and giants. And also: / books, chamomile, and more kissing." Panoramic in time and space, Lives knows each of us, our ordinary lives and our occupancy within history and the universe, our yearning for connection: "And if I turned to you now, my one wet muscle run dry, would you / turn to me? And what else could my heart be for if not to try?"

Author: Cj Evans
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Published: 06/14/2022
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.80w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781946448965