'[ Heather Christle is] among the small handful of authors whose books I reflexively, half-consciously reach toward whenever I need inspiration, consolation, delight. Nobody thinks like her' Kaveh Akbar, Electric Literature
'This is a stunning book' Jericho Brown
Paper Crown is Heather Christle's first new collection of poems in over a decade.
Throughout these exhuberant poems, Christle conjures moments when the world's events - a child's words, early twentieth-century predictions of drone warfare, dinners with friends - alight themselves with the odd logic of dreams and serendipity.
WIth tenderness and verse, honesty and curiosity, Paper Crown invites readers to look up from its pages and recognise that the day going on around them could very well be its own poem.
Mistake
For years I have seen dead animals on the highway
and grieved for them only to realize they are
not dead animals they are t shirts
or bits of blown tire and I have found
myself with this excess of grief
I have made with no object to let
it spill over and I have not known
where to put it or keep it and then today
I thought I know I can give it to you
