Candor is the brightest shield

Poetry. For the past couple decades, A Maxwell has published small artisanal pamphlets and chapbooks collecting poems, epigrams, lists and loose taxonomies—roughly every other year—on his homemade PRB imprint. These have circulated among close friends and other writers in vanishingly small numbers. CANDOR IS THE BRIGHTEST SHIELD collects several of these into a single volume, emphasizing mutually rehearsed themes of quotation, material memory, paternity, animal grief, and the commons.