Jared Beloff’s debut collection, Who Will Cradle Your Head, is now available wherever books are sold.

In this collection, Beloff explores the sorrow and anxieties of living and parenting in a world on fire. He paints a vivid and often surreal portrait of loss, denial, the beauty of nature and the sublime relationship between a father and his children.

“Jared Beloff treats language with the same attentiveness with which he regards the Earth and its inhabitants—revealing a cradling consciousness, and the courage to love dying world. The bird collector lays out the bodies of dead birds ‘in lines like ruffled silver, a tide of feathers.’ Deer ‘lift their black eyes from foraging,’ and ‘mustard grass and clover / spread like muslin over loss.’ In a remarkable sequence of poems, Sasquatch, the mythic human/animal hybrid, speaks with an instinctive intelligence, and from the lyric intensity of ‘our grief / which is also hope.’ These poems enact an acuity of tenderness that is rare in contemporary poetry.”

Diane Seuss, author of frank: sonnets