A darkly humorous collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize-winning
journalist and author of Wideawake Field and Amity and Prosperity
If Men, Then, Eliza Griswold's second poetry collection, charts a
radical spiritual journey through catastrophe. Griswold's language is
forthright and intimate as she steers between the chaos of a tumultuous
inner world and an external landscape littered with SUVs, CBD oil, and
go bags, talismans of our time. Alternately searing and hopeful, funny
and fraught, the poems explore the world's fracturing through the
collapse of the ego, embodied in a character named "I"--a soul
attempting to wrestle with itself in the face of an unfolding tragedy.