I have a handful of books lying open at the moment: Susan Howe’s Pierce-Arrow, Fahima Ife’s Maroon Choreography, Simone White’s or, on being the other woman, Ethan Kleinberg’s Haunting History, and Paul Ricœur’s Time and Narrative: Vol. II.
I’m not really someone who has a gauge for trends. I love people who love language and I tend to begin and end there.
Every part of the process is a part of the cumulative joy. That being patient will allow you to see it.
I think there are three books that compete for this title, but for many different reasons: James Wright’s The Branch Will Not Break, Theodore Roethke’s The Lost Son and Other Poems, and Matthea Harvey’s Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form.
Being more concerned with end products than they are with process.
Brandon Rushton is the author of The Air in the Air Behind It, selected by Bin Ramke for the 2020 Berkshire Prize and just out from Tupelo Press. He teaches writing at Grand Valley State University and lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Find more information on Rushton’s latest release here: https://www.brandonrushton.com/book
