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In this debut collection, Sarah Stoltzfus Allen takes us on a meandering journey through love, loss, grief, motherhood, and everything in between. She is not afraid to investigate the dark places of her mind, and history, so that she can show us her path through the muck into the dazzling sunshine.

Sarah Stoltzfus Allen's The Darks and the Lights imbues the ordinary-the dust rag, the laundry, the drive to work-with expressive turns of phrase, rendering the mundane and familiar in innovative ways. Allen's narratives counter sadness and loss with myth and music. "I can't make any of this ethereal. / It's not pretty, " writes the poet, but the observations and images in these poems offer a lyrical wisdom that can only be achieved through li...