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About the Collection
Sonically rich, Shaw’s poems celebrate language’s capacities and probe its potential to move us from mourning to joy and a more profound commitment to life in all its forms.
“It Will Have Been So Beautiful, Amanda Shaw’s wonderful debut, is as interested in language itself as what language can make. “This shouldn’t be beautiful,” she writes, but to the contrary, it is.”
Nathan McClain, Author of Previously Owned
Up there amid the midges and wild carrot Greg told me about the layers of time I couldn't see, the remnants of fervent lava streams beneath the green furrows and uneven strips of rock. Midges? Black flies? Gnats? Whatever the tongue called them, they sought our hollows, entered nose and mouth.
—from “These Mountains (II)”
About
Amanda Shaw
WRITER • Editor • Consultant
Writer Amanda Shaw has loved language and literature since childhood. She is an accomplished author and educator. Currently, Amanda serves as the book review editor for Lily Poetry Review, where she actively supports emerging authors.
Her debut collection, It Will Have Been So Beautiful, was published by Lily Poetry Review Books in March 2024.
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Will it have been beautiful?
THOUGHTS ON “LAUNCHING” I opened my email this morning to a notification from UPS: “Hi, Amanda! Your package is arriving today.” I couldn’t remember ordering anything, so I used my truly sophisticated forensic skills and clicked on the baguette-like mustard-yellow button, “Track Your Package.” All that did was give me a window for delivery from…
It will have been so…complicated: 2024—the Good, the Bad, and the Future Anterior*
On December 31st, 2023, Eileen Cleary posted a beautifully worded Facebook announcement that my book, It Will Have Been So Beautiful, was available for pre-sale. I knew it was coming, but I didn’t know it would happen on New Year’s Eve—2024 would be so boldly delineated right from its first hours. Ritualist that I am,…
Wait, Now I Have to Read Them?
THE EXCITEMENT AND ANGST OF PERFORMING MY POEMS NOTE This post was originally published in the Washington Independent Review of Books on May 27, 2024. I also decided to put it here on my blog for my friends following my journey as a newly published author. You can see the original post on the publisher’s…
Guest Post: Insights from a Poet’s Husband
BEHIND THE SCENES OF BOOK PROMOTION By Greg Sauter Amanda’S NOTES Apparently, when you have a book out, you need to write about it all the time. This is a new kind of exhausting. So, I am turning over this third musing to my husband. You may recognize him from It Will Have Been So…