At the End of the World There Is a Pond: Poems

A stunning debut volume infused with apocalyptic overload, beginnings and endings, and all the ways we betray ourselves.

At the End of the World There Is a Pond is a book about aftermaths. Each poem comes in the wake of a deep rupture-the ruptures of mental illness and addiction, of migration and displacement, of violence, familial conflict, and ecological catastrophe-and yet the speakers engage with despair and playfulness in equal measure, always allowing humor, irony, and the exuberance o...