Splashed Things

Leigh Lucas (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

80 Seiten

2026
BOA Editions, Limited (Verlag)
978-1-968507-03-9 (ISBN)

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“In my new life, I must learn everything again,” begins Splashed Things, Leigh Lucas’s dark humored and deeply moving debut that examines the chaotic terrain of grief following the suicide of a former boyfriend. With startling honesty and emotional precision, these poems tell the story of a woman in her twenties navigating loss, from the funeral service and her dead-end job, to her therapist’s office and the subways of New York City, revealing the way her beloved’s death infiltrates every corner of her life.

The speaker searches for traces of the departed in unlikely places—the physics of splashes, the history of seasickness, the science of depression—while confronting the limitations of elegy and the futility of trying to contain sorrow in words. Splashed Things is not a neat arc toward healing, but a testimony to the unwieldy shape of mourning and the persistence of love in its wake.

Selected by Maya C. Popa as winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize for its emotional courage, inventive language, and haunting beauty, Leigh Lucas’s Splashed Things marks the arrival of a powerful new voice in contemporary poetry.

Leigh Lucas is the author of Splashed Things, winner of the A. Poulin Jr Poetry Prize (Boa Editions, 2026), and Landsickness (Tupelo Press, 2024), selected by Chen Chen for the 2023 Sunken Garden Poetry Chapbook Award. The recipient of residencies from Tin House, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, her writing can be found in Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Adroit, Smartish Pace, and elsewhere. She holds a BA from Stanford and an MFA from Warren Wilson. She lives in San Francisco, CA. Maya C. Popa is most recently the author of Wound is the Origin of Wonder (W. W. Norton, 2022), a finalist for the 2023 Levis reading prize from VCU. Her first full-length collection, American Faith (Sarabande, 2019), was a recipient of the North American Book Prize and a runner-up in the Kathryn A. Morton Prize judged by Ocean Vuong. She holds a PhD on the role of wonder in poetry and her newsletter, Poetry Today, is one of Substack's best-selling featured publications. The Poetry Editor of Publishers Weekly, she teaches at NYU and elsewhere.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.7.2026
Vorwort	Maya C. Popa
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Rochester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
ISBN-10	1-968507-03-5 / 1968507035
ISBN-13	978-1-968507-03-9 / 9781968507039
Zustand	Neuware