The Lantern Room

“The Lantern Room is stunning and harrowing, built of poems that interrogate the wound of grief, the wound of love, and insist on asking an impossible question. As Honum writes, ‘The light is slippery. Everything hums. It is so important to go on naming’; it is this slipperiness— with language, mood, memory, desire—that keeps us a little off-kilter as we feel our way through the tenuous intensities of sorrow and beauty, sometimes dreamy and sometimes despairing and also, despite it all, sometimes shimmering— ‘O cold, dicey blooms’— with hopefulness.”
—Allison Titus