Poets & Writers

Chessy Normile

American Poetry Review

(APR/Honickman First Book Prize)

All the books on time
are pretty good.

—from “Ever”

HOW IT BEGAN, TIME IT TOOK TO WRITE THE BOOK: I didn’t think of these poems as leading toward anything beyond their own conclusions. Each poem was different— some took years to finish,

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