Rest [Paperback]

Rest is a vivid, powerful collection examining the human cost of crossing the border. In 2010, Margaree Little was working for a humanitarian mission near Tucson when, along with a group of volunteers, she found the unidentified dead body of a man, who a medical examiner would later estimate died at least six months before. This discovery serves as the jumping-off point to a stunning, elegiac series of poems commemorating an imagined, unknown life. Anchored by Littles keen eye and unsparing self-reflection, this collection asks us to examine how a single life can affect so many others.

A debut collection unfolding from the discovery of one mans body in the desert along the U.S./ Mexico border

MARGAREE LITTLE received her BA from Brown University and MFA from Warren Wilson College. The recipient of a 2013 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award and various fellowships, scholarships and residencies, Little teaches creative writing at Kenyon College.