If You Can Tell: Poems

by James McMichael

A poignant new collection with visionary clarity from a National Book Award finalist

If You Can Tell, the new book of poems by James McMichael, a finalist for the National Book Award in 2006, takes up what it might mean that the word was in the beginning, before which there may not have been "empty / space, / even, / nor the thought of it." A baby is conceived after a verbal exchange between his parents. He's born and learns...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374175187
• ISBN13: 9780374175184
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"