Bough Down

Editor’s note: More than four years after her husband’s suicide, Karen Green has put together a transcendent book about surviving him. Aesthetically, it’s as good as anything. Formally, it’s like nothing else, with a brilliant mixture of art and prose poetry. We’ve excerpted below the book’s beginning — including its cover, a work of art in itself — and we’re also reproducing some images from “How On Earth,” a series of paintings Green made in which text from the book is a part of the landscape. —Adam Plunkett

How on Earth


Big Enough


The Sun Is Downing


Whose Woods These


There Is No Refuge in Architecture


At Last the Gradual Light

All images courtesy of Siglio Press and © Karen Green.