"Love when it dies drags / the heart around the grave," Anne Elezabeth Pluto writes, drawing brilliantly upon mythologies-from ancient Greece and Shakespeare, from Russian parentage and a Texan beloved, from immigrant Brooklyn and burning Troy-to tally losses with piercing forensic attention to the unruly tones of grief and desire. In this breathtaking lyric séance, Pluto powerfully animates-and replies to-the artifactual, talkative ghosts who inhabit one's person and storied past.
- Heather Treseler, author of Auguries & Divinations, recipient of the Massachusetts Book Award
