The Book of What Stays

For any of us, what stays? For the arsonist's wife who has not yet left? The devout saint trudging another mile in his nail-shoes? The lost couple in their dying moments in a Nebraska blizzard? The old woman who refuses to leave her home in Chernobyl? With an unflinching eye, James Crews gives us the forbidden love, forbidden unions, and secret lives that, whatever the loss, the attrition, the cost, we must acknowledge, must hold, must keep. And here, in Crews's finely wrought, deeply felt poems, is their testimony.

Author: James Crews
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: 09/01/2011
Series: Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 8.55h x 5.56w x 0.29d
ISBN: 9780803236356


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