Danielle Chapman Releases a New Book: Boxed Juice

Boxed Juice is a rare and original work that makes clear why Danielle Chapman is so vital to contemporary poetry. Spontaneous and indelible, enchanting and disillusioned, extravagant and direct, these poems reveal what Chapman sees from within roles that our culture often renders invisible or ridiculous — mother, caregiver, Christian mystic, literary wife. From the taut, linguistically nimble stanzas of “Unspeakable” and “Kumquat” to the devastating and funny lyric essay at the book’s center, Chapman invokes constraints even as she exuberantly shatters them. Yet, as acclaimed poet and critic Peter Campion notes in his foreword, “for all its elegance, this remains a work pitched against despair, an act of survival.”

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