The Ocean in the Next Room

Winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, this collection of poems seeks answers about how to live meaningfully in a world saturated by late capitalism. “The question isn’t / what exists ,” writes Sarah V. Schweig in her engrossing and prize-winning collection, “The question is what doesn’t / die with us ?” Positioned from within the morass of modern-day living, The Ocean in the Next Room searches for the hard, abiding particles of truth buried beneath our frenzied consumer culture. Stillness. Sunsets