A Better Place Is Hard to Find by Aaron Fagan

For international orders, please visit our distributor, here. Revealing the profusion of life “Where silence / And all possible / Outcomes bathe // In simultaneity,” the poems in Aaron Fagan’s astonishing third collection, A Better Place Is Hard to Find, carefully tune their lines, breaks, and turns of phrase to the acoustics of the author's lived experience. A master of giving shape to thought, Fagan's absorbing poems about love, relationships, philosophy, and his personal history reveal the intimate function poetry can hold in the course of examining one's life. "Aaron Fagan's A Better Place Is Hard to Find contains some of the finest poems I've read in years. At once fluid, blistering, and visionary, Fagan's poems are marvels that I admire for their beauty, their craft, and their fearlessness in the search for truth. What a poet!" -Rowan Ricardo Phillips "Aaron Fagan’s marvelous A Better Place is Hard to Find revels in ideas without being at all intellectualized.  Rather, he takes p