I don't write toward a genre, and I try not to make claim to a genre after a book is published. That said, The Guardians isn't poetry. It's prose.
Sarah MangusoThe catalog of emotion that disappears when someone dies, and the degree to which we rely on a few people to record something of what life was to them, is almost too much to bear.
Sarah MangusoThis is suffering's lesson: pay attention. The important part might come in a form you do not recognize.
Sarah Manguso