Take Nothing with You

by Sarah V. Schweig

There are worlds we can imagine, but we live in this one: contingent and absurd. In her first full-length collection, Sarah V. Schweig aims to capture something essential and universal about this faulted inheritance.

​These poems operate on the notion that the lyric can be discovered in scattered headlines, office-wide emails, road signs--the detritus of the everyday. But a poem doesn't stop at found fragments; it creates something from them. These poems question and re-question what can be truthfully said, rediscovering the lyric in the very process of thinking, revising, and re-envisioning.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609384571
• ISBN13: 9781609384579
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 7.8"