Dear Almost
Louisiana State University Press, 2016
Winner of the Lascaux Prize
“Like a modern-day Basho, Matthew Thorburn travels on a year-long journey through grief over the ‘almost girl’ he and his wife lose to miscarriage. Dear Almost might be the truest poem about miscarriage I’ve ever read.”
—Katrina Vandenberg
Dear Almost is a book-length poem addressed to an unborn child lost in miscarriage. Part book of days, part meditative prayer, part travelogue, the poem details a would-be father’s wanderings through the figurative landscapes of memory and imagination as well as the literal landscapes of the Bronx, Shanghai, and the Japanese island of Miyajima. In candid, meditative verse, Dear Almost seeks to honor the memory of a child who both was and wasn’t there.
Excerpts and interview
"Come Back to Tell Us" on Poets.org (with audio)
“These Days” on Poets.org
Interview in Grub Street
Order on Bookshop, Barnes & Noble or Amazon
Louisiana State University Press, 2016
Winner of the Lascaux Prize
“Like a modern-day Basho, Matthew Thorburn travels on a year-long journey through grief over the ‘almost girl’ he and his wife lose to miscarriage. Dear Almost might be the truest poem about miscarriage I’ve ever read.”
—Katrina Vandenberg
Dear Almost is a book-length poem addressed to an unborn child lost in miscarriage. Part book of days, part meditative prayer, part travelogue, the poem details a would-be father’s wanderings through the figurative landscapes of memory and imagination as well as the literal landscapes of the Bronx, Shanghai, and the Japanese island of Miyajima. In candid, meditative verse, Dear Almost seeks to honor the memory of a child who both was and wasn’t there.
Excerpts and interview
"Come Back to Tell Us" on Poets.org (with audio)
“These Days” on Poets.org
Interview in Grub Street
Order on Bookshop, Barnes & Noble or Amazon
