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Song Cave, paperback

Publication Date: November 12, 2024

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“What beautiful lucidity these poems have, what quiet, firm intelligence. Margaret Ross’ poetry has the vivid characterizations and scenic quality of stories, but with another more mysterious quality that is disturbing and ineffably moving.” –Mary Gaitskill

Margaret Ross’ highly anticipated second collection of poems,Saturday, chronicles a brute education in love and decorum through ceremony starter kits, basement classrooms and a mission school turned art camp, seeking to “touch the myth beneath the fiction.” Dexterous and musical, Ross writes stunning lines with unmistakable precision. These poems accrue from fleeting details, think in images and resist simplifying the nature of feeling. In emotionally raw scenes,Saturdayexplores various forms of intimacy and estrangement in unforgettable ways.