The Time I Didn’t Know What to Do Next
Praise for
“These are the poems of a survivor. This book opens with the crushing fact of the loss of a loved one—the poet's daughter—to suicide. In the aftermath, the whole world seems changed. One does not know what to trust any more, or what to believe in, or what to do next. In that frame of mind, says Rhodes, one starts to listen, and listen hard. These poems show us the labor and meaning of a poet's deep listening to the world, to others, to spirits, to one's God, to one's memory, and to oneself. In such listening one hears something that feels like salvation.”
— Fred Marchant