"Surprising and moving, Gosnay's work shows us what the `clean blue sleeve' of language can do, and we are transformed and held by this book the way the speaker in the final poem is compelled by a `photograph of rose baskets in Morocco': `Nothing on earth could keep me from pressing it to my face.'"" - Angie Estes, author of Enchantee and winner of the 2015 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.

An exploration of intergenerational motherhood, which emphasises that there is no single narrative of motherhood, no finite image of her body or its transformation, and no unified name for any of this experience. The collection is a reminder of the mothers we all come from, urging us to remember both our named and unnamed pasts.

Winner of the 2022 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize Fraternal Light: On Painting While Black: Poems for Beauford Delaney is a lyric evocation of the life and work of the great African American artist Beauford Delaney. These poems pay homage to Delaney's resilience and ingenuity in the face of profound adversity. Although his work never garnered the acclaim it deserves—and is finally receiving—Delaney was well known and highly respected in African American cultural circles, among bohemian writers and artists based in Greenwich Village from the 1930s to the early 1950s, and in Parisian...