Once
Poems
Poems of violence, loss and recovery that move between a daughter mourning her mother and a citizen reckoning with her country.
Meghan O’Rourke’s second collection of poems, first published in 2011, explores violence, loss and recovery. The poems move between the personal and the civic self, setting a daughter’s relationship with her mother beside a citizen’s relationship with a shattered nation. It appeared the same year as her memoir The Long Goodbye, and Vanity Fair wrote that the poems illuminate and echo themes of loss and grief.
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