Maggie Nelsons third collection of poems combines a wanderers attention to landscape with a deeply personal exploration of desire, heartbreak, resilience, accident, and flux. Something Bright, Then Holes explores the problem of losing then recovering sight and insight - of feeling lost, then found, then lost again. The books three sections range widely, and include a long sequence of Niedecker-esque meditations written at the shore of a polluted urban canal, a harrowing long poem written at a friends hospital bedside, and a series of unsparing, crystalline lyrics honoring the conjoined forces of love and sorrow.