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Thin Glass: Poems
Paperback
Publisher Price: $19.00
ISBN13: 9781594981791
Publisher: Fernwood Press
Published: Oct 28 2025
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.17 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Thin Glass unfolds in the after-hours of a city: neon signs blinking, windows open to the street, sidewalks slick with rain. In this lyric coming-of-age, Degenaars writes with clarity and vulnerability about those caught between responsibility and abandon, love and self-erasure.
These poems follow a speaker in flux-lover, daughter, would-be mother-as she questions what it means to survive, and even celebrate, the in-between. Despite all I've tried, I am myself. Still, the speaker confesses, reckoning with a self she can't quite shake.
Degenaars searches for meaning in the small details-hailing a cab, folding laundry, changing in a window. This is a collection about how ordinary life can break us open, an unforgettable meditation on what can't be left behind. These poems are emotionally exact and quietly defiant; they explore how longing threatens and shapes us. Who'd hide from this, the speaker asks, the almost tender-who'd dare?
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