The ice stayed but the water left

"These poems are sharp and glittering, poems about desire, relationships, loss. Chad Weeden's images are powerful, translating emotional states into sirens and flame, fog and stars. There's danger here, and beauty: "Funny how a flailing ripcord/makes us listen to the wind for the first/and last time." This is a gorgeous collection by a wonderful poet."

-Becky Hagenston, author of The Age of Discovery and Other Stories

"Chad Weeden's collection the ice stayed but the water left takes unlikely,...