The World After Rain

“Dreaminess and pain in the ambiguity that grief are the foundation of Lubrin’s decisive and lyrical prose meditating on love, time, and loss through the tumult of living.” —Lucy Yu, Electric Literature

“Lubrin’s fifth book, her fourth work of poetry, is a wonder. Elegy, lyric, and meditation . . . The grief and lyricism in the poem will be quickly recognized by readers, but there is also something larger that is more difficult to articulate with precision but which creates anticipation for each next line. Ultimately, the poet renders time atmospheric, with interiors and exteriors, personal and political, overlapping as Lubrin observes ‘how we are astonished.’” —Booklist

“How incandescent the language is, each line emitting light through the membrane of time and anticipated grief. The work has a rigorousness, the poet pushing through the ache of experience from the first to the last word.” —Dionne Brand