Debutiful—“The 2026 Debut Poetry Collections You Need To Read”
From the publisher: Winner of the International Berkshire Prize, this collection draws from an incredible range of literary forms, from familiar couplets and tercets to footnotes, dictionary definitions, and luminous lyric fragments.
What others are saying: “Song in Tammuz gives us a lyric voice that speaks–no, sings!–back to tradition, sings with devotion (to a “god attached to the end of your name / like the tail of a mare”), yes, but also with questioning (and whose letters are “the last telegraphs to be sent before the city surrenders”). There is grief yet awareness that as she writes, “a last good lemon hangs from its tree.” There is an incredibly memorable persona, Ruth, both mythical–and our own. There is a story of horror sewn out of silences, out of the unsaid. And, always, there is a song: “first anger, then hunger, then song.” This is a marvelous first book.” — Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic and Dancing in Odessa