Once Poems Author:Meghan O'Rourke A powerful collection of poems about grief and renewal by an astonishing and formidable young poet.The incandescent poems in Once explore violence, loss, and recovery. Invoking both the personal and the civic self, they chart uncertain new beginnings in a shattered nation. What emerges is both a poignant meditation on a daughter's relationship w... more »ith her mother and a citizen's relationship to her country.