"In my new life, I must learn everything again," begins Splashed Things, Leigh Lucas's dark humored and deeply moving debut that examines the chaotic terrain of grief following the suicide of a former boyfriend. New York City, revealing the way her beloved's death infiltrates every corner of her life.

The speaker searches for traces of the departed in unlikely places-the physics ofsplashes, the history of seasickness, the science of depression-while confronting thelimitations of elegy and the futility of trying to contain sorrow in words. Splashed Thingsthe persistence of love in its wake.

Selected by Maya C. Popa as winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize for its emotionalcourage, inventive language, and haunting beauty, Leigh Lucas's Splashed Thingsthe arrival of a powerful new voice in contemporary poetry.