The Many Woods of Grief: Poems

By Lucas Farrell

In this striking debut volume, Lucas Farrell offers a lyrical and illuminating field guide to the flora and fauna of "worlds just out of reach." With the precision and detail of an Audubon sketch, he turns his naturalist's eye to the vast landscape of human emotion--all the while affirming "how real this world we live in / must be to live in."

Journeying ever outward, from the achingly ordinary to the mysterious "land where there is no land," the narrator of this collection, equal parts pastoralist and surrealist, explores the vivid in-betweens--between love and loss, hilarity and despair, wild and domestic, real and imagined. Hungry, expressive, and original, these poems glean light from even the darkest of fields.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558498990
• ISBN13: 9781558498990
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 9.0"