Bright Dead Things: Poems Now I'm crossing treacherous lands

Now I'm crossing treacherous lands beside a warrior who despises me as much as I despise him--bound to a future I didn't choose and a husband I barely know

Each piece glimmers with his candor and his longing to authentically see

a neo-Nazi had driven a car into a throng of counterprotesters

Those born Ordinary are just that--ordinary

Bright Dead Things: Poems Now I'm crossing treacherous landsFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Bright Dead Things examines the dangerous thrill of living in a world you must leave one day and the search to find something that is "disorderly, and marvelous, and ours." A book of bravado and introspection, of feminist swagger and harrowing loss, this fourth collection considers how we build our identities out of place and