Things That Shouldn't Be Beautiful (But Are): Poems

Things That Shouldn't Be Beautiful (But Are)
Poems by Ryan StoneA jellyfish that never dies.
A swan that stays after love is gone.
A beetle with mirrors for eyes.
This quietly astonishing collection brings together strange truths from science, nature, and myth-each transformed into a lyrical poem that finds beauty in the unlikely. Spare, mythic, and emotionally resonant, these thirty poems explore what it means to survive, to remember, to reach for connection-even when no one is listening. For readers of Mary Oliver, Ross Gay, or Ada Limón, Things That Shouldn't Be Beautiful (But Are) is a poetic celebration of wonder, smallness, and the strange.