Richard Jeffrey Newman

The Long Journey Out

Arts & Literature

“The poems in Ronald Okuaki Lieber’s The Long Journey Out root themselves first in settings rendered with such loving and attentive detail that they shimmer with significance. In poem after poem, the speaker grapples with what he sees—doing the work that we all need to do to embrace the fact that we can have no other life than the one we’ve lived and to learn how, because we are all going to die, to let that be enough.”