There are so many footnotes, references, and shout-outs to poems in this book that, as someone who’s pretty far from the whole poetry world, it took me a while to get through it. To really get what these letters are about, you kinda have to dive into the works of everyone involved.
This isn’t really a correspondence between three people — it’s more like a conversation between art and talent that’s totally detached from everyday reality.
First read - January 2022. Reread - August/early September 2025. It feels almost unbelievable and a little shameful even, that I once gave it 4 stars. And still, I’m also glad. Perhaps that missing star reflected something was still missing in me. I want to believe now these three years have made me softer - more attuned to beauty, more open, and above all, more compassionate. And maybe now I finally see the star I couldn’t see before and all the other stars no scale could ever contain.
As there are no words that could reflect this book without diminishing it, I offer only my own very humble “thank you” to all three poets, and all the people who made this book possible.