Sycamore

These “flinty, well-crafted poems abound with texture and verve” as the author explores nature, love, and mourning in a landscape all her own ( Publishers Weekly ). This collection of meditative poems by Kathy Fagan takes the sycamore as its inspiration—and delivers precise, luminous insights on lost love, nature, and the process of recovery. “It is the season of separation & falling / Away,” Fagan writes. And so—like the abundance of summer diminishing to winter, and like the bark of the sy