FINALIST for the Big Other Book Award for Nonfiction! A collection of original essays written by contemporary poets about the innovative and unforgettable novels written by their predecessors.

"This generous anthology will have a place on the shelves of literature professors and grad students."—Publishers Weekly

"Whether engaged in close reading, philosophical discussion, literary discourse or theoretical deconstruction, this book articulates and extends that conversation. It is a challenging, focused and exciting read."—Tears in the Fence

“You thought you were aware of what poetry could mean to you, could do to you, then her poems did something new to you.”—CAConrad 

“Laynie Browne’s You Envelop Me, written in the tradition of elegy, attempts to come to terms with the continuing presence of absence.”—Claudia Rankine

“Laynie Browne has a knack for moving between worlds to channel an orchestra of animal, vegetable, and mineral voices.”—Lisa Jarnot