Four Way Books will publish WILLOW HAMMER in spring 2025.
At the heart of this book is a crime that one family member commits upon another, and the consequences of ignorance, denial, bargaining, complicity, and finally revelation, that reverberate through the family for five decades afterward. “You know how you can know some things / but forget you know until it’s time to remember,” the protagonist of these poems asks. Sometimes the greatest gift we can give to one another is the acknowledgement is that in certain times and places, we aren’t The Main Character, but we can stand up for that person.
At the heart of this book is a crime that one family member commits upon another, and the consequences of ignorance, denial, bargaining, complicity, and finally revelation, that reverberate through the family for five decades afterward. “You know how you can know some things / but forget you know until it’s time to remember,” the protagonist of these poems asks. Sometimes the greatest gift we can give to one another is the acknowledgement is that in certain times and places, we aren’t The Main Character, but we can stand up for that person.
