And Luckier

Here’s a book about the adjustment to age, the imperfections in the world,

loss and what it makes of a person, and the poet as an “absentee Nana,” her

grandchild living far away. What does it mean, in a climate changed world,

to pass the “stiff diorama” of degraded farmland to a scattered family?

Kendrick valiantly copes with not having all the answers in And Luckier. Her

combination of melancholy and gratitude provides all we can’t know of life

and its endings with a majestic understanding.

—Molly Peacock