In But Today Is Different Sarah Sterns first full-length collection of poems she explores the themes of loss desire the erotic getting older in a youth-obsessed culture and finding the mystical in the ordinary. Several poems are shaped by conversations between an enduring voice and a mortal one that asks questions. The answers are in the shared spaces of wonder about the knowable and unknowable. With wisdom humor and humility Stern brings the reader to a new place of deep feeling. Endorsements f