In her fierce, one-of-a-kind debut, Rebecca Lindenberg tells the storyin verseof her passionate relationship with Craig Arnold, a much-respected poet who disappeared in 2009 while hiking a volcano in Japan. Lindenbergs billowing style lays bare the poets sadnesses, joys, and longings in poems that are lyric and narrative, at once plainspoken and musically elaborate. This widely anticipated debut, already selected as a finalist for several prominent book awards, marks the first collection in the newly minted McSweeneys Poetry Series. MPS is an imprint which seeks to publish a broad range of excellent new poetry collections in exquisitely designed hardcoverspoetry thats useful and meaningful to anyone in any walk of life.
