Dark Woods

Dark Woods

<p><strong>A NEW YORK TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2018</strong></p><br /><p>Snow, canoes, frozen ponds, lonely conifers . . . <em>Dark Woods</em> takes the motifs and landscape of a Canadian childhood and examines their place in a world of smartphones and overflowing inboxes. The result, Sanger’s first book in 16 years, is a striking new collection full of mysteries and reassessments, wordplay, slang, and sonnets, meditations on parenthood and the “cracks in the granite”: those urges that won’t go away, and the people who have.</p>