Margaret Ray is pulling back the curtains on our societal performance of culture guiding an exposing light to the daily performance that is life in a womans body.Selected by Stephanie Burt as the winner of the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize Rayamp8217s Good Grief the Ground interrogates the everyday violences nonchalantly inflicted unto women through personal political and national lenses. Moving between adolescence and adulthood Ray alternates between dark humor and heartwrenching honesty to explore grief anxiety queer longing girlhood escape from an abusive relationship and the dangers of lending language to a thing.amp160 With stunning wit and precision and attention we see Ray show us what it is to be human the mess of tenderness and darkness and animosity.amp160Out of the heavy Florida dusk out of peach juice and latenight swimming pool breakins and glances across grocery store aisles come these completely captivating poems. In the words of Stephanie Burt Come and see. Take care. Dive in.