Poetry. This collection consists at its core of a sequence of poems that speak to the loss of the writer's brother to suicide. These poems stun us by their restraint and simplicity, and by their astonishment that this life, so important to so many, could be extinguished in such a manner. Harrison's poems are impeccably crafted and move through narrative seamlessly-dry, naive, vulnerable, always accessible. "Harrison's best poems...open doors to the place in the heart where we come closest to knowing who we really are"--David Kirby. "Determinedly affable, chatty, and low-key even when his subjects are bleak, Harrison's fourth volume stakes almost everything on the winning tone that pushes his almost prose-like, free verse poems....These memoirlike poems have the bizarre details real grief always includes (the brother 'had enogh socks/for several lifetimes'), along with the sadness no verbal talent can assuage"--Publishers Weekly. Jeffrey Harrison is the author of three previous books of poetry and currently on the faculty of the Stonecoast MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine.

Jeffrey Harrison, born in Cincinnati, Ohio is an American poet. His poems have appeared in The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Yale Review, Poets of the New Century. He has taught at George Washington University, Phillips Academy, and College of the Holy Cross. He is currently on the faculty of the Stonecoast MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine. He lives in Dover, Massachusetts.

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