Tenebrae

“Max McBride is a visionary poet. His series of poems, Tenebrae: A Memoir of Love and Death ... grapples with the death of his wife. In these poems he takes the reader on the journey that his wife endured, and he with her, in her wrenching passage from life to death. … What he has created is astonishing. There is a humanity at the core of these pieces that shakes the reader to the bone. They are moving. They are elegiac. They are celebratory … they are the human heart in a singular and authentic voice. McBride's poetry is … playful, intelligent, of the personal and the universal simultaneously … they are completely of us, for us, the world at large.” —From the Foreword by Matthew Lippman, author of The New Year of Yellow, Monkey Bars, Salami Jew, and American Chew