Every Lash (Volume 28)

Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry

by Leigh Anne Couch

This collection’s title—as in tether, strike, eyelash, welt—is a nod to the fluidity of language and the foolish penchant we have for naming things, including ourselves. The poems refuse to navigate, choosing instead to face head-on the snares of gender, patriarchy, and parenting. In the closing environmental poems of farewell, the speaker regains communion with nature through the ageing body.

92 pages, Paperback

Published March 30, 2021