The Ones We Have

 

Leah Naomi Green's The Ones We Have turns a trenchant and beautifully observant eye to how we humans build our world; worlds both beautiful and dangerous, made up of the seemingly simple. . . . Relationship is precious, in Green's vision, and hard won. . . . These poems, their lyric intensity and tender power, will change the way you look at the smallest stuff of your life, and give you a vocabulary for saying, This life is never easy, but it is always worth it.

—-Suzanne Paola, author of The Lives of the Saints and Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir