These clear-eyed, haunting poems map complex and intertwining responses to the question Anne Pluto\'s collection poses about desire, endurance, and the search for home. - Mary Pinard , author of Ghost Heart (Ex Ophidia Press, 2023).
These are unflinching poems of reckoning, beauty, and repair.
Indeed. . .
I carried/grammatic hope and the knowledge that women/are the ones who weave the remains of ruin . . .
In her poem Books, Pluto reveals: .
This journey en-compasses worlds: personal family histories, the widow poet\'s grief, and explorations of the politics and brutalities of war, in particular regarding the experience of women, who offer witness and example: from Isis to Hevrin Khalaf, from Akhmatova to Szymborska.
These clear-eyed, haunting poems map complex and intertwining responses to the question Anne Pluto\'s collection poses about desire, endurance, and the search for home
