This Awkward Art: Poems by a Father and Daughter

Poetry. What this wonderful little book does is to set in parallel some of the poems of father and daughter--poems which were not written to be read in tandem, but which for that reason are all the more subtle and powerful in their conversing. The poems give upon each other in certain inescapable ways: one sees from different vantages the constellation of a family. Arranged by quiet turns in this slim and generous book, the poems make public the private: the late afternoon inquiries, the depth of pleasure, the relentlessness of memory.