The Inside of an Apple

"If you take a broad squint at our nation's new poets you can find two general strategies: poets who are carrying the torch, and poets who are using it to start fires. And then we have Joshua Beckman. He seems to be doing everything."—Daniel Handler, The Believer

"Beckman . . . does the incredible work of writing poems full of desire, for a world in the midst of radical upheaval."—Publishers Weekly (starred review for Take It)

Joshua Beckman is at his most immediate, attentive, and available ...