Mostly Sweet, Lovely, Human Things feels like a joyful, tender, eternal embrace. These poems are full of wonder and a desire for wholeness: recollections of girlhood, the poet now in a knowing season of life, no longer afraid of death....

Finalist for the Kirkus Prize A raw and deeply moving memoir from the legendary author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness that traces the complex relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, a fierce and...

In the title poem of Motion Against Our Moorings, Joseph Powell writes, "Love is the rope stretching into the invisible.//How deeply we believe in the thinnest tethers./What's spirit but motion against our moorings." These poems consider love's intricacies, intimacies, its...

A “small but remarkable cast of characters occupy a world in the Pacific Northwest that is a sight to behold…. [A]n engrossing story about family that is as grounded as it is lofty…. [T]he author’s gift for storytelling keeps everything...