Paper Crown

<p><b>''[Heather Christle is] among the small handful of authors whose books I reflexively, half-consciously reach toward whenever I need inspiration, consolation, delight. Nobody thinks like her'' Kaveh Akbar, <i>Electric Literature</i></b><br><b><br>''This is a stunning book'' Jericho Brown</b><br><i><br>Paper Crown</i> is Heather Christle''s first new collection of poems in over a decade. <br><br>Throughout these exhuberant poems, Christle conjures moments when the world''s events - a child''s words, early twentieth-century predictions of drone warfare, dinners with friends - alight themselves with the odd logic of dreams and serendipity.<br><br>WIth tenderness and verse, honesty and curiosity, <i>Paper Crown</i> invites readers to look up from its pages and recognise that the day going on around them could very well be its own poem. <br><br><b>Mistake</b><br><br><b>For years I have seen</b><br><b>dead animals on the highway</b><br><br><b>and grieved for them </b><br><b>only to realize they are</b><br><br><b>not dead animals</b><br><b>they are t shirts</b><br><br><b>or bits of blown tire</b><br><b>and I have found</b><br><br><b>myself with this</b><br><b>excess of grief</b><br><br><b>I have made with </b><br><b>no object to let</b><br><br><b>it spill over and</b><br><b>I have not known</b><br><br><b>where to put it or</b><br><b>keep it and then today</b><br><br><b>I thought <i>I know</i></b><br><i><b>I can give it to you</b></i></p>