Some of the Things I've Seen

"Poems in Sara Berkeley's newest collection (published previously in Ireland as The Last Cold Day) are alert to climate threat, conjuring memories of fires sending up "their smoky prayers" and "the ice [that] sings its long last song, / a requiem." In Some of the Things I've Seen, Berkeley charts a move across America, from California to New York's Hudson Valley, from one climate to four seasons, navigating new love and marriage, as well as her life in the frontlines of the pandemic as a Hospice nurse, the lessons of the dying and the life that goes on"--