Twice Alive

"In these surprisingly accessible poems about new love after grief, Forrest Gander finds fresh metaphors in the life cycles of lichen, which is “theoretically immortal,” and comes up with ingenious yet almost always circuitous routes toward coupling and what comes after. “Whoever/ thought anyone was just one thing?” Gander asks, a reminder that nothing could be more natural than, if not conflict, ambivalence, a strong pull from opposite directions. Twice Alive is an unlikely celebration following a dark time."