For fans of Readers of Maggie Nelson, Carmen Maria Machado, Anne Sexton, Charles Simic, Carl Philips.Lent takes domestic life seriously, as a place in which every concern and every philosophical quandary, large and small, converges.Lent is Angela Carter meets John Berger.These poems unite the banal and the baroque, the literal and the metaphoric.Lent is a book about small acts of noticing, about attention as devotion.This book is a response to an idea of living and thinking