“The Grid is no mere footnote to the classics – in this work, Mandel changes the shape of the American narrative poem forever.”

—Katie Peterson, author of A Piece of Good News

“Laura Newbern’s A Night in the Country is at once direct and mysterious, a book of declarations and decrees subsumed in the language of the fable. These are exceptional poems, and a subtle song of heartbreak plays through every line.”

—JERICHO BROWN, author of The Tradition

“This is that rare work that is both profoundly alert to its historical moment and also, in the questions it entertains and the magnitude of its intent, timeless. It seems to me a lesson in how to make something of where we find ourselves.”

—From the foreword by Louise Glück