Galaxy Love ─ Poems

The poems in this new volume by the winner of the National Book Award span countries and centuries, reflecting on memory, aging, history, and mortality. “Hamlet Naked” traverses Manhattan in the 1960s from a Shakespeare play on 47th Street to the cellar of a Ukrainian restaurant in the East Village; “Thieves and Murderers” encompasses musings of the medieval French poet François Villon and Dwight Eisenhower; “Orson” recounts a meeting of the poet and Orson Welles exiled in Paris.FROM “GALAXY LOVE”There's too little time left to measurethe space between us for that waslong ago—that time—so just lieunder the dark blue quilt and putthe fat pillows with the blue slipson the great windowsill