“The brilliant poet Bianca Stone moves from strength to strength. Her powerful new book is a deep pleasure, fueled by a necessary restlessness in the service of discovery, creating a gorgeous tapestry of introspection and seemingly endless creative expression. These wonderfully rich and capacious poems explore the ‘spectacle of historic grief ’ set in tension with the ‘afterlyric of childhood.’ The Near and Distant World is bold, daring, darkly funny, heartrending, and honest.”

—Peter Gizzi, author of Fierce Elegy