Gather the Night: Poems (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series)

"Quietly powerful . . . Gather the Night ambitiously takes on the task of speaking about loss, addiction, madness, grief, and love, bringing us into its intimate confrontations. We emerge from reading it with a deeper understanding of all of the above, a sense of wonder at the way we get through the harder, harsher aspects of our lives, and an appreciation for poets and nurses like Seluja who guide the way."

--Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine

"Reading Seluja's exquisite first collection feels like a sacred act of gathering. . . . This is an honest, heartbreaking homage to a brother lost to the world but held tenderly in the heart of his sister."

--Booklist

"Gather the Night is a poetic love letter to Seluja's brother Lou and to all schizophrenics. . . . These poems capture the wonder and grief of those who have loved the afflicted, witnessed their buzzing world, and endured their loss."--Valerie Martínez, author of Each and Her

"When you stop breathing while reading, you know you are there. . . . Gather the Night is a 'rupture so much closer than it seems.'"--Meg Tuite, author of Bound by Blue: Stories

Katherine DiBella Seluja is a pediatric nurse practitioner and a poet.