Vestiges

Vestiges is a gripping and haunting book, ruminating on loss but balancing this with an allure of possibility where, in the book's first poem, "A spent blue sky tenders solace." In elegy, allegory, lyrical poems and children's stories, there is wicked humor, self-irony and bravery. A blunt honesty runs through this collection, demonstrated in one poem, where the speaker wonders: "The house / is a bucket of wounds and ruin. / I'm gambling which of us goes first." With a playfulness of langua...