What the Deep Water Knows: Poems -- Miranda Cowley Heller

<p><b>From the #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Paper Palace</i>, a Reese's Book Club Pick, comes a debut poetry collection that paints a moving portrait of a rich life from childhood to love to marriage to motherhood to divorce and beyond.</b></p> <p><b>"Breathtaking . . . will change the way you see the world." --Daisy Goodwin, author of <i>The American Heiress</i></b></p> <p><i>What the Deep Water Knows</i> by Miranda Cowley Heller is a series of exquisite reflections on love in all its seasons. In poetry that is lyrical and quick-witted, gentle and devastatingly frank, Cowley Heller contemplates time, marriage, and motherhood. Her words will envelop you and bring you to the water's emotional edge: </p> <p>"I stand in bare feet at the break, <br />icy water soaking my cuffs.<br />A scoop of pelicans dives on bait fish<br />- relentless, cruel.<br />Kelp fronds mourn them in the glassy deep.<br />A hermit crab creeping on to shore<br />skittles its way across the sand.<br />In the blue, a soot tern wings loop-the-loops.<br />And I lift my face into the wind."</p> <p>from "Things the Tide Has Discarded"</p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Miranda Cowley Heller<br><b>Publisher:</b> Zibby Publishing<br><b>Published:</b> 07/01/2025<br><b>Pages:</b> 144<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.45lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.70d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9798992427622<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><p><b>Miranda Cowley Heller</b> was raised in New York C