After by Robert Gibb (Marsh Hawk Press, paperback)
Publication Date: March 1, 2017
Publisher Marketing: Poetry. Winner of the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize 2016. "With a naturalist's precision, a subtle sense of the way the line pushes its music against silence, and with great emotional restraint, the poetof AFTER studies the world—the spathes of skunk cabbage, windfallapples—and finds there the lineaments of grief, a lexicon for his ownnearly unbearable loss. But it's no accident this book opens with a poemto Keats, who understood that beauty which carries the news of sorrowis still beauty, still a source of joy. AFTER is an artfully made, intelligentand aching embodiment of a question that can't be answered: is the lovelypersistence of the world a source of consolation or of deeper grief?"—Mark Doty
