Edna by Melissa Boston

“Melissa Boston’s Edna is an inventive and intimate book of dislocation and longing, in which the poems slide quietly between the Midwest, New Mexico, and Hawaii, as well as between love and solitude, connection and failure. But these poems are also about how art and literature communicate with our lives, as Boston reaches toward numerous artists and writers to shape her understanding of the moments she and her poems inhabit. The result is a smart and complex consideration of impermanence—an auspicious debut that is both layered and moving.”

–Wayne Miller, author of We the Jury

“These are poems of loss and longing that face difficult truths with an unflinching eye. With a compelling lyrical voice, Melissa Boston excavates tenderness, honesty, and beauty in even the most harsh and hard-scrabbled of circumstances. An extraordinary and deeply moving collection!”

–Kathryn Nuernberger, author of RUE