Nura Yingling

Girl, adolescent, lover, wife, teacher, and grandmother turn into one another everywhere in these marvelous narratives. “To have your back against the horizon where darkness meets / its opposite in glory or grief,” Yingling posits in “Triangulum,” “ is this earthly life.” Hers is a poetry of becoming and of being. “The woman who you could be,” she writes, “is.” — Lisa Russ Spaar