Exceeds Us

Taking its name from a line in Rilke' s second Duino Elegy, " For our own heart always exceeds us," at its core this is a book about new love and underlying illness. A lyric pursuit of our existence among the natural world, these poems keep in mind that existence is transient. They straddle reality lines, often stepping over into dream spaces or pushing against a linear world. But they are solidly of this world, its ground and various bodies of water, where a boy can become a field and a gi...