The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir

Winner of the*PEN Ackerley Prize ¿ Longlisted for the 2019*PEN Open Book Award

“Devastating and lyrical.”*-The New York Times

“Suspenseful and affecting.”*-The New Yorker

From the celebrated poet behind*bone, a collection of poems that tells a story of coming-of-age, uncovering the cruelty and beauty of the world, going under, and finding redemption

Through her signature sharp, searing poems, this is the story of Yrsa Daley-Ward and all the things that happened. “Even the terrible things. And ...