The Game of Boxes

The second collection by Catherine Barnett, whose "poems are scrupulously restrained and beautifully made" (Edward Hirsch, The Washington Post)

Everyone asks us what we're afraid of but children aren't supposed to say.

We could put loneliness on the list.

We could put the list on the list, its infinity.

We could put infinity down.

—from "Fields of No One to Ask"

In Catherine Barnett's The Game of Boxes, love stutters its way in and out of both family and e...