November, November

Written across the span of four Novembers, this collection delivers a send-off to "e;loved poets"e; who are no longer with us.Dedicated as letters and long epistolary lyrics to those who are missing a loved one, November, November acknowledges poetry s palpitating vulnerable form, and how sometimes a poem might be the only comfort that resides between silence and grief.Isabella Wang s second collection began as a tribute to the late Phyllis Webb, and was completed in the aftermath of Wang s cancer diagnosis. The poems respond directly to Webb s work and collapse the fine landscapes separating death and Wang s own mortality. Over the course of treatment and days [when] we don t get to rewrite the history of our bodies, the pace of Wang s poetry slows down in the complicated recovery from cancer. Entering the cloudless silver of November days, her words tell a story of loss and illness, and her poems linger in the cold air, visible.