RUNNING THROUGH BOTH OF THIS ISSUE’S AUTHOR FEATURES are narratives of memory—and within those narratives, tremendous loss—that two exceptional writers have worried down to diamond-sharp works of art that transcend the personal and particular and lay bare hard questions at the heart of memory.” The Pulitzer Prize winner, whose new book, , is forthcoming in March from Graywolf Press, has never been satisfied driving along those same narrow roads of experience to explore her poetic subject. “You first have to establish a baseline of where you’ve been, what matters to you, what you can’t . But at a certain point those things aren’t enough anymore, for you or for the poems. You can’t keep writing to the same concerns in the same way over and over again,” she tells Stone. “The narrative of memory is crucial. But something needs to transform that narrative, form and music, and urge oneself into the hard questions.”
