Not on the Last Day, But on the Very Last

Winner of the National Poetry Series: "Filled with unusual juxtapositions and quick cuts that make the poems seem movielike, even trancelike." —Library Journal

Mothers masquerading as witches and sepulchral bellhops who reveal themselves to be fathers: In Justin Boening's debut collection of poems, selected for the National Poetry Series by Wayne Miller, nothing is as it seems.

Peopled by figures both uncanny and tragic—lionesses who dance and cry, surgeons who carry with them the trauma o...