A NEW YORK TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2018Snow, canoes, frozen ponds, lonely conifers . . . Dark Woods takes the motifs and landscape of a Canadian childhood

Dark Woods

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2018

Snow, canoes, frozen ponds, lonely conifers . . . Dark Woods takes the motifs and landscape of a Canadian childhood and examines their place in a world of smartphones and overflowing inboxes. The result, Sangerâ€™s first book in 16 years, is a striking new collection full of mysteries and reassessments, wordplay, slang, and sonnets, meditations on parenthood and the â€œcracks in the graniteâ€: those urges that wonâ€™t go away, and the people who have.

Dark Woods