Subtitled “A Personal, Historical & Natural Inquiry in 103 Lyric Sections,” Jill Bialosky’s August, 2020 poetry collection, Asylum (Knopf), comes with a great cover (in full, below) and some impressive endorsements: Yiyun Li calls it “an urgent and expansive book,” while Yusef Komunyakaa says the book is “…intently alive with lyrical truths.” Honestly, this cover—which features a cut-away of a tree and minimalist sans-serif typography—feels like it was designed just for me (those are all of my favorite things).

 

 

Jonny Diamond

Jonny Diamond

Jonny Diamond is the Editor in Chief of Literary Hub. He lives in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains with his wife and two sons, and is currently writing a cultural history of the axe for W.W. Norton. @JonnyDiamondJonnyDiamond.me