Splashed Things
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"In my new life, I must learn everything again," begins Splashed Things, Leigh Lucas's dark humored and deeply moving debut that examines the chaotic terrain of grief following the suicide of a former boyfriend. With startling honesty and emotional precision, these poems tell the story of a woman in her twenties navigating loss, from the funeral service and her dead-end job, to her therapist's office and the subways of New York City, revealing the way her beloved's death infiltrates every corner of her life.
The speaker searches for traces of the departed in unlikely places-the physics of splashes, the history of seasickness, the science of depression--while confronting the limitations of elegy and the futility of trying to contain sorrow in words. Splashed Things is not a neat arc toward healing, but a testimony to the unwieldy shape of mourning and the persistence of love in its wake.
Selected by Maya C. Popa as winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize for its emotional courage, inventive language, and haunting beauty, Leigh Lucas's Splashed Things marks the arrival of a powerful new voice in contemporary poetry.
Book Details
- Publisher:
- BOA Editions
- ISBN:
- 9781968507053
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- Pages:
- 101
- Authors:
- Leigh Lucas
- Published Date:
- 2026-04-07
- Language:
- English
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Who is a new voice in poetry that we need to check out? Someone with a debut book or recent release?
Leigh Lucas, her debut book Splashed Things. Lucas’ voice in these poems just pulled me under in the best way. This is a powerful and gorgeous book, and from the first pages you realize the poems aren’t behaving like “regular poems”—no neat little name tags, unconventional spacing, forms that feel slightly shattered and alive. But it’s exactly the point—the form is grief-shaped. It’s not decorative, it’s doing work.
I don’t want to give too much away, because honestly this book just appeared in my mailbox like a literary ghost delivery. Did I preorder it? Was it sent to me? Did the poetry gods slide it through the mail slot? Unclear. But I opened it, started reading, and immediately thought: WHO IS THIS AMAZING POET?! Where did this come from?
I read the whole book in one sitting and it’s still sitting beside me as I type this.