Instructions for the Lovers Aster of Ceremonies Gonzalez’s poetry depicts the fullness

Gonzalez’s poetry depicts the fullness of living

everyday life and grand historical drama

irrevocably changed the Italian language

“Does it feel like crossing from an open field into the woods

Instructions for the Lovers Aster of Ceremonies Gonzalez’s poetry depicts the fullnessDawn 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,