About the Book
In Marie Gauthier’s long-awaited first collection, we are greeted by lyric intimacies, wistful weather, stunning turns of phrase, and the deep comfort of domestic scenes. With its earthy autumnal edge, Leave No Wake offers a meditation on family, illness, and loss, and how the scale of celebrating subtle moments and life’s “small economies” almost always shifts toward grief. Gauthier’s deft hand sketches portraits of the rhythm inherent in rural landscapes, where “snow falls // in longhand” even among “a whole trove / of darkness and dreads-to-be,” as the book’s smooth movement through inspired waters reminds us that life’s inevitable fade seems “a Polaroid in reverse.” Leave No Wake is the debut of a true talent.
—Jennifer Militello, author of The Pact
About Marie Gauthier
Also author of the chapbook Hunger All Inside (Finishing Line Press), Marie Gauthier’s first full-length collection, Leave No Wake, was published by Pine Row Press in spring 2022. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Sugar House Review, The West Review, and elsewhere. She works for Pioneer Valley Books, runs the Collected Poets Series in Shelburne Falls, Mass., where she lives with her family, and serves as the founding president of the League of Women Voters of Franklin County in addition to her work on the board of the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts.
Learn more at http://marie-gauthier.com
To Purchase
Pine Row Press (March 31, 2022)
Leave No Wake
978-1736339442
82 Pages, Paper