Any Gesture Middle Eastern Poetry and her brother has suddenly

and her brother has suddenly flown to South America without a word

exuberance

With her celebrated humor

The inimitable poetry of Patricia Smith radiates in The Intentions of Thunder—reaffirming Smith’s place as one of the indispensable poets of our time

Lucie finds herself drawn to George again

Any Gesture Middle Eastern Poetry and her brother has suddenlyA braided, elegiac journey through death and recovery, Any Gesture takes on loss, anticipatory grief, and the little deaths experienced in the space between mourning and survival. The collections four narrative threads speak to a modern, suburban Ophelia; pre elegize a sister on the brink of suicide; reconcile miscarriage and infertility; and question the proper care for the dead in the face of escalating and dehumanized losses. In these haunting,