You Good Thing

Ranked #40 in Wave

"This anti-elegy, both reverent and funny, anticipates the funny reverence that Wier finds, makes up, and sustains throughout her decades of subsequent writing."—Jacket Magazine

Dara Wier's loose sonnets insist on a living language in the face of death, cycling and vibrant as the water that runs through them.

. . . Assigned to
Adventure said the motto on our buttons. The last thing we knew
Before we left with our satchels concerned how love withdraws
Moving backward taking with it everything, our names, this way.


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