Water, But More Than Water

Water, But More Than Water is a debut collection of seventy-six poems in seven sections, written in free verse, prose poems and ghazals. It follows a young woman through two years with a musician in a beach town: a band in the corner of a bar, an apartment beside the railroad tracks, and his mother's Persian, a language she never learns, which the book keeps in its own script with transliteration. The later poems move into a quiet house, a marriage to a good man and two daughters, while a p...