Twigs & Knucklebones

Quirky, macabre, vivid and spellbinding, Sarah Lindsay’s Twigs & Knucklebones melds science and art with astonishing facts that just might be true: spadefoot toads singing until their throats bleed; an explorer tumbling into an Antarctic crevasse and swinging from his tether like a pendulum; a young girl playing a house like a trumpet. At the heart of the collection is an extended poem about Nab, a fictional kingdom populated by megalomaniac archaeologists, jerboas, goatherds, and the strange god Nummis. Sarah Lindsay’s poems often span—in the space of a few lines—centuries, cultures, and contexts, as they open to new worlds and unveil new ways of seeing that are undeniably grounded in the present.