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Praise for Gail Wronsky’s poetry:

“A master of the lyric, a visionary never far from the complicated wondrous relations between world and imagination, body and mind, Gail Wronsky is one of our most indispensable poets.”

— Gillian Conoley, author of Notes from the Passenger

“The stakes are high, each poem walking the edge of a decision to live and love another day…Here, the lyric form is revivified.”

— Diane Seuss, author of Modern Poetry and winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize

“Wronsky is unafraid to try to nail down feelings that are part of the eternal, macabre romance between life and death…her project is important.”

— Karen Kevorkian, Los Angeles Review of Books

“Rhythmic urgency and a faultless, inventive music.”

— The Boston Review

“…like H.D.’s work…smart, classy poems.”

— Library Journal

About Gail Wronsky

Gail Wronsky is the author of eight books of poetry, three coauthored collections of poetry, and two books of translations of the poetry of Argentinean poet Alicia Partnoy. One of her translations, Fuegos Florales/Flowering Fires, won the American Poetry Prize from Settlement House Press. Her books include most recently The Stranger You Are, with illustrations by the renowned artist Gronk, and Under the Capsized Boat We Fly: New & Selected Poems. She lives in Topanga, California.