Winter Here

In Jessica Tanck’s debut collection, narrative and lyric converge to confront the marks left by violence, loss, and longing.  Winter Here  troubles the boundaries between home and the outside world, between reverence and terror, asking whether and where safety can be found in the wake of a mother’s suicide. Both intimate and expansive, this collection revels in pleasure as much as it contends with pain. Whether studying the way a violinist is bruised in the act of playing, invoking the