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If You Love That Lady

A New Collection of Poems
by Maya C. Popa

“One of my generation's finest poets—a truly peerless voice that realizes itself at such a startlingly scintillating pace. An immense book and a searing achievement.”

― Ocean Vuong ―

Wound is the Origin of Wonder

US: W. W. Norton 2022
UK: Picador Books 2023

American Faith

Sarabande 2019

You Always Wished the Animals Would Leave

New Michigan Press 2018

The Bees Have Been Canceled

US: New Michigan Press
UK: Southword Editions 2017

  • “Popa’s descriptions are brilliant for the vividness they conjure, sparkling much in the same way as Anne Carson’s writing. These brilliant descriptions painfully yet beautifully relay the darkness in our world, darkness we are largely responsible for, and the repercussions we must live with.”

    - Sarah Appleton -

  • “Poised and powerful, the poems are shot through with powerful feeling both personal and political in their restless, condensed narratives.”

    - Jane Draycott -

  • “Each one of these poems feels like they’ve been hewn, pared down and carved from bigger works, chipped away at, like sculptures or flowers carved from radishes to produce something precise from the more haphazard nature that surrounds us.”

    - Mat Riches -