All We Saw

Poems of elegy in the aftermath of a great love from the internationally best-selling, award-winning novelist ( Fugitive Pieces, The Winter Vault ) and poet. In All We Saw, Anne Michaels returns with strikingly original poems to explore one of her essential concerns: "what love makes us capable of, and incapable of." Here are the ways in which passion must accept, must insist, that "death . . . give / not only take from us." This piercing short collection treats desire in a style that is chaste,