Midwood: Poems

Midwood is a restless and intimate volume from a poet James Wood has called "one of the most original voices of her generation."

In her third book, Jana Prikryl probes the notion of midlife, when past and future blur in the equidistance. Balancing formal innovation with deeply personal reflection, Midwood subtly but impiously explores love and sex and marriage and motherhood in plain, urgent language. Written for the most part early every morning over the course of a year, in all its changin...