How God Ends Us

"How God Ends Us is the luminous debut of a poet who helps us shape the geometrics of sudden change that are too much with us. The observations the poet makes in this collection are of the wanderer pondering the persistent question that lives in many of us of why things come to be and why they cease."—Afaa Michael Weaver, author of The Plum Flower Dance and The Ten Lights of God

"What a refreshing range of vision DéLana Dameron shows in these splendid poems. Ever rich with the arresting image, ever graceful and yet refusing to look away from a suffering that calls grace into question—from the 'assemblies of the shattered / in Harlem' to the steady inevitability of how the flesh must fail us—these poems argue for witness as the only way of knowing—of being somehow grateful for—a world that is always leaving us, even as we ourselves must leave it."—Carl Phillips, author of Riding Westward and The Tether

"The poems in How God Ends Us are intensely spiritual and address an all-knowing God whose power must be acknowledged and accepted, if not always understood. The power resides in the mystery. . . . Death haunts the poems in this fine collection, but it never dominates. There is much celebration that provides a kind of balance against inevitable loss."—Charleston Post & Courier

Winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize