Everything

"Clever, capricious poems grounded in the very matter of life: loving, losing, and persisting ... Andrea Cohen's Everything approaches the idea of the macro through an elastic inquiry of the micro ... The collection examines logic through analogy; for example, if everything is formed of anything, then isn't absence a product of abundance? In poems that follow their own line of questioning wherever it may lead--to destinations that are often unexpected and always rich with discovery--Cohen explores love, grief, and alternate endings. The worlds she creates in the poems expand, contract, change shape, and change course ... These poems ask us to remain open and to circumvent ordinary answers on the route toward extraordinary, nuanced ones"--