| Winner
of the Prize Americana for Poetry, Sehnsucht
suggests yearning or longing, what C.S. Lewis called “an
unsatisfied desire more desired than any satisfaction.”
With a Donne-ish variety mingling the physical and
metaphysical, these poems (published in Poetry, Best
New Poets, Poetry in Motion and more)
explore the concept of Sehnsucht: the rise and
fall, the flow and ebb, of romantic fascination; the quest
for enduring meaning across fleeting times and places; and
ultimately a desire to live fully in the moment even as
one yearns and leans into eternity.
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