Sara Henning is the author of View from True North, cowinner of the 2017 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Award and the 2019 High Plains Book Award. Her honors include the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize, the George Bogin Memorial Award, the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award, and awards from the Sewanee Writers' Conference and the Vermont Studio Center. Her work has been published in journals such as Quarterly West, Crab Orchard Review, Witness, Crazyhorse, Meridian, and the Cincinnati Review. She lives and writes in Huntington, West Virginia, where she teaches at Marshall University.

This poignant collection of masterful elegies centers on the revelatory ways in which the speaker reconciles love, loss, and grief's legacy. Following her mother's battle with colon cancer and her own crisis of meaning, Henning culminates the collection with her rediscovery of joy in life's small moments.

I. Terra Inferna
Terra Inferna
Elegy with Saltwater Taffy
Queening
Mom’s Eggs
Elegy Beginning with the Birth of a Mountain
God of the Kitchen Window
French Fries
Smoking in the Car
Cancer
Here Be Dragons
II. Terra Incognita
Terra Incognita
Elegy for the Color Pink
Once, I Prayed in the Water
Woman in Flames
The Boy
God, You Are a Muscadine
Still Life with Smoke
Elegy with Blueberries
Death Buried the Daughter I Was
What the Time-Share Man at the Westgate Hotel Tried to Sell Me
III. Terra Nova
Terra Nova
IV. Terra Firma
Terra Firma
Last Stash
Traitor Angels
Mercy Villanelle
Elegy in the Shape of a River
Weather Haibun
They Call Her Mi Corazon
My Mother Comes Back as a Dragonfly
Cherishing
Winter Gazebo
Acknowledgments
Notes