The Persistence of Longing

Named a finalist for the Northern California Book Award in Poetry as one of the best works by a northern California poet published in 2016

I love these poems, love how they sweep me along, sweep me up into the arms of the kind of longing that seems unsayable, untranslatable, impossible to describe in any language, with any words—the words turning back into breath, as this poet says, as she creates the sense of that longing, itself, in words, in these sometimes-breathless lines, sometimes aga...