Description
The Sky Will Hold is a meditation on life: life inside a second marriage, life in middle age, life as a stepparent. It’s a close look at desire and addiction, at love and loss, at learning how to let go while still holding on to what is necessary. Elizabeth Hazen doesn’t back away from sticky topics, we see the inner workings of blended families, parenting a nearly-grown child, and living in an aging body with all the freedoms and pitfalls it can bring. This collection is a mantra of survival and love and continuing to move forward and always, always, believing the sky will hold, even when all signs point to the opposite.
Available for pre-order, books will ship late March 2026.
About the author:
Elizabeth Hazen is a poet and essayist whose work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Epoch, Fourth Genre, Southwest Review, The Threepenny Review, The Normal School, and other journals. She’s the author of the full-length collections Chaos Theories, Girls Like Us, and The Sky Will Hold. She lives in Baltimore with her family.
