Sarah Arvio

"'I thought I had left behind the darkness / of the heart,' Sarah Arvio confesses in the poem 'small war.' The love Arvio traces in these pages is a battle, one in which the best-laid plans are shattered. Rarely has a poet tackled intimate love with so much invention and bravery. In poem after poem, we meet the troubling lover whose nearness and force undoes her. There are moments of reprieve: 'my naked body and budding pleasure / in the weather of...