The Thicket opens into intimate encounters with the more-than-human world--rivers, birds, stones--and with a "you" that is not a person, necessarily, but also not not a person: maybe God, maybe an aspect of the self, maybe neither or both. Often speaking of/to the small or overlooked (weeds by a roadside, an abandoned silo), the poems orient themselves toward edges, transitional spaces like the one where fields shift into woods. Where does one body stop? The Thicket takes an interest in becoming, one thing flowing into something else. Excerpt from "At Cape Henlopen" All night wind insists in the trees, its unsteady hush funneling us down into sleep under the tender shelter the oaks, even leafless, make--all night their trunks creak and sigh and speak. Speak to me--I think the word protect until its edges dissolve, inside the tent that wraps us like another, thinner skin, rocked and chastened by the wind that doesn't cease . . .

Author: Kasey Jueds
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 11/02/2021
Series: Pitt Poetry
Pages: 94
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9780822966647

About the Author
Kasey Jueds is the author of Keeper, which won the 2012 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. She lives in New York State's Catskill Mountains.