For any of us, what stays? For the arsonist's wife who has not yet left? The devout saint trudging another mile in his nail-shoes? The lost couple in their dying moments in a Nebraska blizzard? The old woman who refuses to leave her home in Chernobyl? With an unflinching eye, James Crews gives us the forbidden love, forbidden unions, and secret lives that, whatever the loss, the attrition, the cost, we must acknowledge, must hold, must keep. And here, in Crews's finely wrought, deeply felt poems, is their testimony.
- ISBN10 6613596175
- ISBN13 9786613596178
- Publish Date 1 September 2011 (first published 1 January 2011)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 1 August 2012
- Publish Country US
- Publisher University of Nebraska Press
- Imprint Bison Books
- Format eBook
- Pages 97
- Language English