this is poetry not prose means that the narrative arrives in a more imagistic way, lyrically, with the haunting silences that poetry lets in more readily. This book is a concentrated thing, a small, gracefully constructed diorama set before us.”
“An elegant, sharp book that has been written out of grief but not overpowered by it. Think of this book alongside Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking or Joyce Carol Oates' A Widow's Story. The fact that
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The Bled: Poems by Frances McCue
