Both chronicle and confrontation, the poems of Jacob Scheiers debut work out and through notions of loss. As the death of a young mans mother instigates and informs these investigations, the realities of romantic failures become inextricably connected, and in the process More to Keep Us Warm maps the limitations, and breaking points, of the human heart. Questioning how and why we fall in and out of love becomes the collections haunting refrain.

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