The Solace Is Not the Lullaby

Jill Osier’s poems of quiet attention comprise this 114th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, called “stunning” by Kimberly Burwick in Orion

The hollow more than shape is certain. The 114th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets features Jill Osier’s poems of quiet attention to the human and natural worlds. Series judge and critically acclaimed poet Carl Phillips notes, “Osier’s is a sensibility unlike any I’ve encountered before—the poems here are thrilling, and strangely new.”...