Even The Wolves: even the wolves seek warmth.

Some winters don’t end with the season.Even the Wolves is a debut collection of prose poems and lyric essays from Eric Alan Marsh — thirty-one pieces written over a decade spent living inside addiction, bipolar disorder, and the relentless, unglamorous work of staying in the fight.These are not recovery stories. They are persistence stories. Written on borrowed couches and in the back of a van, in treatment centers and in the hollow hours after midnight, they map the interior of a life that nearly came apart — and the difficult, specific beauty of one that didn’t.Marsh writes in a voice that is direct, unsparing, and occasionally darkly funny. He moves between prose and poetry without announcing the shift, between the deeply personal and the plainly universal — between the bottom of the cycle and the first thin light above it. His subjects include addiction and its failures, love and its miscommunications, the Minnesota cold, fatherhood, music, and the strange comfort of knowing you are not the only one still standing in the cold.Even the Wolves closes where it begins — with the question of warmth. Where it comes from. What it costs. Whether the wolves find it in the end.For readers of Ocean Vuong, Nick Flynn, and Denis Johnson. Read more