Thin Glass

<p><em>Thin Glass</em> unfolds in the after-hours of a city: neon signs blinking windows open to the street sidewalks slick with rain. In this lyric coming-of-age Degenaars writes with clarity and vulnerability about those caught between responsibility and abandon love and self-erasure.</p><p>These poems follow a speaker in flux-lover daughter would-be mother-as she questions what it means to survive and even celebrate the in-between. Despite all I've tried I am myself. Still the speaker confesses reckoning with a self she can't quite shake.</p><p>Degenaars searches for meaning in the small details-hailing a cab folding laundry changing in a window. This is a collection about how ordinary life can break us open an unforgettable meditation on what can't be left behind. These poems are emotionally exact and quietly defiant; they explore how longing threatens and shapes us. Who'd hide from this the speaker asks the almost tender-who'd dare?</p>