A RARE JOY

A review of Marbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems

JEFFERSON NAVICKY

Books Marbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems edited by Sarah Giragosian and Virginia Konchan University of Akron Press, 2023 225 pp., $29.95 (paperback) Poets, for the most part, write poems—that’s why we got into this whole thing in the first place, right? So then to turn and at some point realize, “Now I have to assemble a manuscript …” requires a completely different set of skills. As Karyna McGlynn writes in her essay for the excellently expansive anthology Marbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems, “This is why we freak out when it comes to assembling a book: so many pages! We’re used to thinking at a smaller scale. We’re suddenly sure that none of our poems ‘go’ with each other, like they’re a pile of…

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