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A magnificent book of hope and resolve written out of profound losses, by award-winning poet Mark Wunderlich

The anticipated new book by Mark Wunderlich, whose poetry "reminds us how fully the spirit can illuminate the depths" (The New Yorker)A Publishers Weekly Book of the WeekWith your sorghum broom you sweetened my path, pulledthe woolen shawl around me while I slept.That the lightning struck the willowand did not fall-for this I am grateful. -from "Heaven-Letter"The Earth Avails evokes an all-but-lost history, when every setting, thought, and act...

In this debut collection, Mark Wunderlich creates a central metaphor of the body as anchor for the soul -- but it is a body in peril, one set in motion through the landscape of desire. In poems located in New York's summer streets, in the barren snowfields of Wisconsin, and along stretches of Cape Cod's open shoreline, the lover speaks to the beloved in the form of lyrical missives, arguments, and intimate monologues. The poems converse with e...

A chilling and masterful second poetry collection by the author of the award-winning "The Anchorage " "Sometimes the heart breaks. Sometimes" "it is not held hostage. The red world" "where cells prepare for the unexpected" "splays open at the window's ledge." "Be not human you inhuman thing. "-from "Amaryllis" "Voluntary Servitude" asks of the beloved, "You say, Don't wreck me, and I say I won't, but how can I know that?" Here the poet is bo...