Episode #27: Mourning with Words - Forrest Gander
Forrest Gander’s book Core Samples of the World was a both Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle finalist. His new work of poems, Be With, written following the death of his wife, the noted poet C.D. Wright, explores the nature of loss and grief.
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