Maura Dooley

Five Fifty-Five presents quizzical poems concerned with time and mortality, asking fundamental questions about our lives, such as Where have you gone? and Who were you anyway? In her first new collection since The Silvering, the author tries to find answers through conversations with figures like Louisa M. Alcott, Hokusai, Jane Austen, Buzz Aldrin, Anne Tyler, and the Great Uncle...