The Milk Hours: Poems

Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize,The Milk Hoursis an elegant debut that searches widely to ask what it means to exist in a state of loss.

“We lived overlooking the walls overlooking the cemetery.” So begins the title poem of this collection, whose recursive temporality is filled with living, grieving things, punctuated by an unseen world of roots, bodies, and concealed histories. Like a cemetery, too,The Milk Hourssets unlikely neighbors alongside each other: Hegel and Murakami, Melville...