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Lit Hub’s Favorite Books of 2018

New Directions

There is a line from this collection of poems that has stuck with me since I read it back in the summer: “At which point the driver turned and said it doesn’t need to be / your fault to break you.” Much of Be With was written in the wake of profound loss, specifically, the death of Gander’s wife, the poet C.D. Wright, and though the depth of the sadness that sounds throughout these poems sometimes feels without bottom, it is nonetheless lit with a sly grace that recognizes none of this is our fault.

–Jonny Diamond, Lit Hub editor in chief

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