A gorgeous collection from an American talent unafraid to embrace complexities and examine them under the lyric's precise light.
In gorgeous, scrutinizing, and ever-hopeful poetry, Romanian-American poet Maya Catherine Popa offers a hymnic study of American violence.
"Lyrical, beautiful, and descriptive." -Mandana Chaffa, BOMB“In ravishing, formally exploratory poems, Maya C. Popa wields the lyric like a reparative scalpel, evoking wonder and woundedness in equal measure.” —Meghan O’Rourke
A brilliant and heartbreaking new poetry collection from the award-winning writer of Wound is the Origin of Wonder.
"One of my generation's finest poets-a truly peerless voice. . . . An immense book and a searing achievement." -Ocean Vuong, author of The Emperor of Gladness