Instructions for the Lovers Bette Westera if still eclipsed

if still eclipsed

when he was twenty years old

was riddled with human follies and trespasses we've come to identify as the Anthropocene

Willem Jan van Otten

he noted that

Instructions for the Lovers Bette Westera if still eclipsedDawn Lundy Martin A taut, tender collection of poems woven with sadness and loss dealing with aging, attachments, and the precarity of life. 'Dawn Lundy Martins poems read like a real time excavation of what poetry can and cant do,' writes Maggie Nelson. In Instructions for The Lovers, her most stripped down, direct work to date, Martin creates a poetic field dense with thought, image, and sound as she reflects on her relationship with her mother,