Description

• Beautiful collection from this Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
• Dedicated to her partner, photographer Molly Malone Cook
• First Printing [Harcourt, Brace & Co, New York, 1994]; x, 55, [blank, Acknowledgements, 5 blank] pages; green cloth spine over papered boards, gold titling to spine, a fine copy in like dustjacket, unclipped [$19.95]

…To live in this world / you must be able / to do three things: / to love what is mortal; / to hold it / against your bones knowing / your own life depends on it; / and, when the time comes to let it go, / to let it go.

– from In Blackwater Woods