New York Times bestselling nonfiction writer and poet Cristin OKeefe Aptowiczs How to Love the Empty Air reaches new heights in her revelatory seventh collection of poetry. Continuing in her tradition of engaging autobiographical work How to Love the Empty Air explores what happens when the impossible becomes realfor better and for worse. Aptowiczs journey to find happiness and home in her evershifting world sees her struggling in cities throughout America. When her luck changesin love and in lifeshe cant help but tell the sun tell the fields tell the huge Texas sky. tell myself again and again until I believe it. However the upward trajectory of this new life is rocked by the sudden death of the poets mother. In the year that follows Aptowicz battles the silencing power of grief with intimate poems burnished by loss and a hardwon humor capturing the dance that all newly grieving must do between everyday living and the desire to elope with this grief who is not your enemy this grief who maybe now is your best friend. This grief who is your husband the thing you curl into every night falling asleep in its arms. As in her awardwinning The Year of No Mistakes Aptowicz counts her losses and her blessings knowing how despite it all life ripples boundless like electricity like joy like. laughter irresistible and bright an impossible thing to contain. show more