Precipitations

In the rain, Manhattan’s streetlamps become saints, their golden halos leading an endless procession toward dawn—and death. Evelyn Scott sees a city where even the night seems alive, watchful, and dangerous.

In this early twentieth-century collection, Scott moves from Brooklyn Bridge and Fifth Avenue to parks, winter streets, hospital rooms, and the uneasy country of the self. Her poems make city crowds both intimate and alien, snow both a dance and a shadow, the body a place where desire, pain, and mortality press close. The images are beautiful, but never safely so: beneath the glitter of lights and leaves, something is always slipping toward darkness. How much of the world can the solitary voice absorb before it disappears into it?

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