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 , “This is why we freak out when it comes to assembling a book: so many
