Elegy & April by Jesse Curran

In this singularly beautiful and powerful collection, Jesse Curran explores the unexpected landscapes of feeling, traversed through foreign travel and the familiar. We experience the natural world in all its breathtaking precision, its quirky detail and profound underlying wisdom, and the luminous threads connecting it to us. This is a poet who, with quiet force, reveals the startlingly intimate connections among our inner lives, our environment, and each other.

–Jessica Lott, author of The Rest of Us

There are many wise, moving, and beautiful visions to cherish in this chapbook. When Curran writes “It is the words––or the ways/we gaping people need them”, I found myself nodding in agreement and feeling fulfilled.

–Rowan Ricardo Phillips, author of Heaven and The Ground