Visiting Her in Queens Is More Enlightening than a Month in a Monastery in Tibet

2022 Rattle Chapbook Prize Winner

Visiting Her in Queens Is More Enlightening than a Month in a Monastery in Tibet is a kind of family photo album for the final years of a life. As dementia progresses in Michael’s mother, each poem is at once a snapshot, a foreshadowing and a memory. And like memories, each is revealing, accurate, and blurry.