Abider: Poems

"Showcasing the poet’s ironic best, it’s a masterly volume about love, not merely abided, but embodied."
-Publishers Weekly Starred Review

Equal parts sad, sexy, and searching, Abider opens with the central lament/brag of its lover-speaker, that she can never truly leave anything—or anyone—behind. The origins of this abidingness are traced in odes and elegies for a rural girlhood beset with jeopardy and scarcity and neglect. But it was also good-wild, conducive to a reckless freedom she can’t...