Instructions for the Lovers by Dawn Lundy Martin Paperback Book 9781643622316

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NBCC AWARD IN POETRYA taut tender collection of poems woven with sadness and loss dealing with aging attachments and the precarity of lifequotDawn Lundy Martins poems read like a realtime excavation of what poetry can and canamp8217t doamp34 writes Maggie Nelson In Instructions for The Lovers her most stripped down direct work to date Martin creates a poetic field dense with thought image and sound as she reflects on her relationship with her mother experiences of queer polyamory lesbian sex and the racist conditions within the dying American university system With rigorously embodied vulnerability and virtuosity Martin constructs moments of pleasure humor and sexiness woven with griefa tender body to live in