Because What Else Could I Do: Poems
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019
eISBN: 978-0-8229-8692-8 | Paper: 978-0-8229-6591-6
Library of Congress Classification PS3553.O4752B43 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6
eISBN: 978-0-8229-8692-8 | Paper: 978-0-8229-6591-6
Library of Congress Classification PS3553.O4752B43 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6
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Winner of the 2020 Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award
Because What Else Could I Do is a sequence of fifty-five untitled short poems, almost all of them addressed to the poet’s husband during the six months following his sudden and shocking death. Perhaps best known for her historical explorations of sociopolitical issues, Martha Collins did not originally intend to publish these poems. But while they are intensely personal, they make use of all of her poetic attention and skills. Spare, fragmented, musical even in their most heartbreaking moments, the poems allow the reader to share both an intimate expression the poet’s grief and a moving record of her attempt to comprehend the events surrounding her loss.
Because What Else Could I Do is a sequence of fifty-five untitled short poems, almost all of them addressed to the poet’s husband during the six months following his sudden and shocking death. Perhaps best known for her historical explorations of sociopolitical issues, Martha Collins did not originally intend to publish these poems. But while they are intensely personal, they make use of all of her poetic attention and skills. Spare, fragmented, musical even in their most heartbreaking moments, the poems allow the reader to share both an intimate expression the poet’s grief and a moving record of her attempt to comprehend the events surrounding her loss.
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