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Winner, 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award, poetry category Winner, 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize Finalist, 2015 National Book Award, poetry category Finalist, 2015 NAACP Image Awards, poetry category Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the seasons, the earth as we know it—that tries to find solace in the processes of the garden and the orchard. That is, this is a book that studies the wisdom of the garden and orchard, those places where all—death, sorrow, loss—is converted into what might, with patience, nourish us.
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My one criticism is that the structure of the poems often made it difficult to read. I understand this is purposeful but still, I felt it muddled the experience a bit. This book is a bit hard to grasp, both through metaphor/allusion and in the actual reading experience. Otherwise, this is an absolutely beautiful connection. A particular favorite of mine is “spoon”. There's just something about it man. It's so damn good.
Edit literally months later:
This became my favorite poetry book of all time. So. There's that.
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