Now My Heart is Full (July 24, 2018, Penguin Books) by Laura June is a moving memoir about June’s experience as the daughter of an alcoholic and borderline abusive mother, and how it affects her relationship with her own daughter. They didn’t have the emotional resonance I often look for in poetry but I know brilliance when I read it and this book is brilliant.” Now My Heart is Full On a craft level, these poems are impeccable. I particularly enjoyed the erasure poems of black civil war soldiers seeking compensation. “I mean, she’s the poet laureate for a reason. In this work, she explores what it is to be a citizen, a mother, and an artist in today’s America. Wade in the Water (April 3, 2018, Graywolf Press) is the newest poetry collection by U.S. In shimmering, open hearted prose, she shows that it took everything.Īlso Caleb is trash. Instead, she offers a portrait of a broken man and a broken marriage and an abiding love, what it took to set herself free from it all. Sundberg’s honesty is astonishing, how she laid so much of herself bare, how she did not demonize a man who deserves to be demonized. That’s precisely what Kelly Sundberg has done in her gripping memoir about marriage and domestic violence.
“It is a hell of a thing to write about brutality and suffering with strength, grace, generosity and beauty.
