Given Featured in “Summer Reading Recommendations” from North of Oxford

Thanks to the folks at North of Oxford for featuring Liza Katz Duncan’s Given in their “Summer Reading Recommendations.” Of Liza’s book, they wrote,

Liza Katz Duncan’s debut collection, Given, winner of the Autumn House Rising Writer Prize, is both a poignant elegy and a sustained meditation integrating reflections on aesthetic perception and the complex interdependence between nature and psyche with deepening mourning of tragedies personal and collective. Its thematic scope allows insights from each context to inform the others, and its variety of approaches offers continued revisioning of and movement of thought and feeling within its central concerns. A considered inner strength permeates the poems, a forthright balance of reflective thought, awareness of emotional nuance, and an intuitive sense of connection between inner and outer, perception and lacuna, love and loss.

Check out the full reading list on North of Oxford‘s website!