A Holy Dread

“…the holy dread with which we face that which we love most, or that which loves us the most…”
—Mary Ruefle, “On Fear”

In this highly anticipated second collection of poetry, R. A. Villanueva reckons with identity, family, and history to illuminate the tenderness and calamity of the world we make together—the beauty and grief our children will inherit.

A Holy Dread emerges from essential questions and fierce hopes about why we create, who we hold dear, ...