“The wonderment in an Andrew Hemmert poem spreads far beyond topic or meditation, far beyond moment, era, or epoch, beyond—even—the gravity of our home planet. The joy here is that the poet fixes his lens on everyday experience and chases meaning wherever it takes him, wherever it might be found.”

—Michael McGriff, author of Inquest and Angel Sharpening its Beak

“It’s deeply refreshing to encounter poems that invite both dread and delight. This book is disastrously good.”

—Corey Van Landingham, author of Reader, I

“I thought my heart might be hardened by now, but these poems held out a hand, offering both a reassuring resignation and—not faith exactly, more—some kind of dogged belief in duckweed, spiderwebs, in the absolute miracle of a single horse’s breath.”

—Allison Adair, author of The Clearing

“astonishing poems both contemplative and energetic”

—Chelsea Dingman, author of I, Divided

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