"A groundbreaking work about race and the American landscape. Thoughtful, sincere, wise, and beautiful." -Helen Macdonald, author of H Is for Hawk
“A lush gem of a book, both heartbreaking and heart-making.”—AMY THIELEN
“A very American book, and an important one for our time.” —CATE MARVIN
“Some of my favorite people on Earth are in this book, dear writers and grand spirits.” —ANNIE DILLARD
“Both carefully observed and daringly philosophical . . . The cosmos aches, as it did for Orpheus and for Gilgamesh, and as it did for Eve.” —MARK DOTY
“I will read more books in my life but I will not love another book more than this one.” —MARY-LOUISE PARKER
“Eric Pankey writes poems that give us back, if not the world, our relation to it.” —DAN BEACHY-QUICK
Selected by Kazim Ali as a winner of the 2019 National Poetry Series, Thrown in the Throat “gloriously stakes new territory in queerness.”
“[This collection] feels like we’re holding a small thunderstorm in our hands.” —AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL
From “one of the preeminent American visionaries of our moment” (G. C. Waldrep), a singular reflection on living well in a time of distraction and despair
“Beautiful and timely work . . . Lush and obsessed and frantic and deathy.” —FRANCINE J. HARRIS