Want the Lake

Spanning two decades, Want the Lake is an expansive dreamscape made of—and wrecked by—language, mother’s milk, purple jacaranda, queer longing, snowy fields, and the rich stuff of domesticity and fable. these astonishing poems do more than sail across—they wade in, alight-upon, leave and return, grieve and plumb and birth and build their “nests of shame” and then become the lake itself: Desire.