The Summer After: Poems

The Summer After is the winner of the twenty-fourth New Criterion Poetry Prize.
Beauty, glamour, vitality, love—and their fragility or resilience in a chaotic world—animate the poems in The Summer After. Drawn from travels real and imaginary, immersed in landscapes set loose by perpetual motion, these playful yet poignant encounters with aesthetic opulence journey through the exquisite kinesis of becoming, choreographing delicate fluctuations in the permeability between self and other, past...