The Resounding Humanity of Sarah Kay’s ‘No Matter the Wreckage’

“You may not even crack the spine.
You may place this on the bookshelf,
or worse, under a stack of papers.
You may forget it and regift it later
to someone as a Secret Santa.
I will never know.”

— from “The First Poem in the Imaginary Book”

I’ll admit that Sarah Kay’s No Matter the Wreckage has indeed been a resident of my…