Instructions for the Lovers

By: Martin, Dawn Lundy

A taut, tender collection of poems woven with sadness and loss dealing with aging, attachments, and the precarity of life.

"Dawn Lundy Martin's poems read like a real-time excavation of what poetry can and can't do," writes Maggie Nelson. In Instructions for the Lovers, her most stripped down, direct work to date, Martin creates a poetic field dense with thought, image, and sound as she reflects on her relationship with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1643622315
• ISBN13: 9781643622316
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Nightboat Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.7"