Was It for This B. Zwaal and glinting with stars

and glinting with stars

published on the centenary of his birth

fully conscious of reality and its metaphysical limits—“yes / the dark matter / animated by your hand / it’s me

Utterly rejecting the lies and logic of capitalism

Premised on this peril is not a paralyzing grief but a generative poiesis of “cruel desperation

Was It for This B. Zwaal and glinting with starsHannah Sullivan Hannah Sullivans first collection, Three Poems, won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the inaugural John Pollard International Poetry Prize. Was It for This continues that books project, offering a trenchant exploration of the ways in which we attempt to map our lives in space and time. But there is also the wider, collective experience to contend with, the upheaval of historic event and present disaster. Tenants, the first poem, is an elegy