Last Visit

Winner of the 2018 Donald Justice Poetry Prize, Chad Abushanab’s formalist poetry collection, The Last Visit, carefully and compassionately explores a family broken by alcoholism and abuse.

These poems trace the trajectory of an adolescent living with a violent father struggling with addiction, and recount both the abused child’s perspective and his attempts to reckon with his past as he reaches adulthood, chronicling his own struggles with substance abuse and the reverberations of trauma in...