The Widow's Crayon Box: Poems

“Peacock works her trademark lyrical magic.” —Alex Gurtis, Rain Taxi

After her husband’s death, Molly Peacock realized she was not living the received idea of a widow’s mauve existence but instead was experiencing life in all colors. These gorgeous poems—joyful, furious, mournful, bewildered, sexy, devastated, whimsical and above all, moving—composed in sonnet sequences and in ...