Soon and Wholly

by Idra Novey

New poetry by the author of acclaimed 2023 novel Take What You Need faces the complexities of life on a swiftly heating earth.

Idra Novey's first collection in a decade, since Patricia Smith chose Exit, Civilian for the National Poetry Series, brings a lyric intimacy to the extremes of our era. The poems juxtapose sweltering days raising children in a city with moments from a rural childhood roaming free in the woods, providing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081950128X
• ISBN13: 9780819501288
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 96 Pages