A first collection of poems from the winner of the Cuffer Prize for short fiction. Our Gleaming Bones Unrobed is a haunting debut, a poetry collection thematically focused on discovering the structure (the figurative bones) beneath the appearance (or skin) of a situation. This poetry is at once memento mori--a reminder and celebration of our mortality--and a lyrical exploration of the spirituality of the mundane, the possibility for revelation found in the commonplace.

The universe's heart is a ruined house.
Written on the door is this:
you cannot do a thing that has not already been done.

--from 'On the Occasion of a Book Burning'