Shuly Xóchitl Cawood’s second poetry collection, Something So Good It Can Never Be Enough (Press 53), will be released on September 26.

About Something So Good It Can Never Be Enough

In Shuly Xóchitl Cawood’s newest collection, she shares moments that matter, “where life took a turn, or a truth was revealed.” Her poems “mine regret and longing, travel through joy and sorrow, and hold on to a vision of the future while trying to let go of the past.”

Praise for Something So Good It Can Never Be Enough

“Shuly Xóchitl Cawood’s personal and human poems lift us into a world where the past—no matter its complexities or tragedies—can be understood and transformed. We read poetry to do the impossible, to live inside another human mind. ‘I want to tell you a story. // A story with no shame,’ Cawood writes. Yes; let her tell you about her mother who doesn’t believe she can cook or about best friends and good friends, holiday parties and soft-boiled eggs and buttermilk rolls. Learn ‘Yes is everywhere—like fireflies and silver-sided leaves and dogs that chase the rain.’ I’m so glad this book exists. Shuly Xóchitl Cawood has a talent for narrative as well as whimsy, for nonce forms—she’s a master of refrain and of riff— and I came away from these poems not only pleased, but happier for having read Something So Good It Can Never Be Enough.” —Laura Lee Washburn, author of The Book of Stolen Images

Something So Good It Can Never Be Enough is available for pre-order now. Explore Shuly’s website. Learn more about Press 53.

About the Author

Shuly Xóchitl Cawood is an award-winning writer and the author of six books, including Something So Good It Can Never Be Enough: poems (Press 53, 2023) and Trouble Can Be So Beautiful at the Beginning (Mercer University Press, 2021), winner of the Adrienne Bond Award for Poetry. She has an MFA from Queens University, and she loves leading writing workshops, hiking, and eating dark chocolate. Learn more at shulycawood.com. You can sign up for her monthly author newsletter here.