If Men, Then: Poems

By Eliza Griswold

Book Overview

A darkly humorous new collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Wideawake Field and Amity and Prosperity

If Men, Then, Eliza Griswold's second poetry collection, charts a radical spiritual journey through catastrophe. Griswold's language is forthright and intimate as she steers between the chaos of a tumultuous inner world and an external landscape littered with SUVs, CBD oil, and go-bags, talismans of our time. Alternately searing and hopeful, funny and fraught, the poems explore the world's fracturing through the collapse of the ego, embodied in a character named "I"--a soul attempting to wrestle with itself in the face of an unfolding tragedy.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374280770
• ISBN13: 9780374280772
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.4"