Matters for You Alone

Matters for You Alone isa spiritual exploration of friendship: its shapes and duties, stresses andblames—and its absolute necessity. The book takes its title fromJean-Pierre de Caussade’s classic, Abandonment to Divine Providence , asit strives to interpret everyday encounters and events—the domestic, themundane—in light of the eternal. Powerful and powerless—madeperfect in weakness—the speaker in these poems is fractured and dazzling,abject and hurried, courageous and fallen, you and me. At tim