Bright Dead Things: Poems Those born Ordinary are just

Those born Ordinary are just that--ordinary

Can we ever free our behavior from the legacy of our ancestors

That it's important to take your dog for dedicated "smell walks

Each piece glimmers with his candor and his longing to authentically see

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Bright Dead Things: Poems Those born Ordinary are justFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Bright Dead Things examines the dangerous thrill of living in a world you must leave one day and the search to find something that is "disorderly, and marvelous, and ours." A book of bravado and introspection, of feminist swagger and harrowing loss, this fourth collection considers how we build our identities out of place and