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Four Way Books, paperback
Publication Date: March 15, 2026
Publisher Marketing: About Sugar, David Orr has said: “Andrea Cohen’s ninth collection is elegantly precise–but this isn’t the precision of a meticulously arranged garden or tidy bookshelf. Rather, Cohen’s nimble, exacting lines are like guide ropes strung up the sides of an icy mountain: Her precision manages risk, and the risk leads to startling vistas. An entire relationship dynamic unfolds in the five monosyllables of ‘Proximity’ ‘She died / Of my wounds.’ In ‘Ghosting, ‘ the ambiguity of departure–the way in which lives and loves sometimes cease without concluding–is captured in all its shades of gray: ‘Any ghost will / tell you– // the last thing / we mean // to do / is leave you.’ We sometimes think of poems as recreating experience, but Cohen’s work reminds us that poetry, at its most patient and compassionate, is also a way of discerning. Sugar brings us a step closer to the sun; it helps us to orient ourselves, but more than that, it helps us to see.”
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