Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems Helen Phillips Lauren Sánchez

Lauren Sánchez

Let Us Descend describes a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation

the sisters come to the stark realization that in the kudzu-choked South

since the sun is still up

Or will a secret tragedy

Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems Helen Phillips Lauren Sánchez"On the subject of writing poetry, Oliver is the most enlightened and enlightening author I have read." Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award comes Winter Hours, Mary Oliver's most personal book yet. And never more so than in this extraordinary and engaging gathering of nine essays, accompanied by a brief selection of new prose poems and poems. With the grace and precision that have