My Destination, a dynamic collection of poems, gathers a chorus of voices, where the tangle of family and social life unfolds against a widow’s grief.
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About My Destination
“When I am reading a poem by Daisy Fried, I often forget that I am reading a poem, and believe myself instead to be experiencing an event. This may be a result of Fried’s effortless command of those aspects of storytelling, like character and action, that we falsely reserve for novelists. But I prefer to think that My Destination succeeds for reasons of poetry—the poet’s unapologetic curiosity about experience, and her remorseless hunger for the right words to know her moment.
“‘I begin to take an interest in life,’ she writes at a moment few would dare (this is not the only audacious moment here, far from it). This book quite simply embeds itself in human life, and intriguing new ground is broken, in poems of widowhood, motherhood and more. Fried’s conditions are epic, her voice is human, and her ability to describe the human comedy astonishing. With the tenacity of Athena and the craftiness of Penelope, she makes her way. I admire this book tremendously.”—Katie Peterson
Praise for My Destination and Previous Poetry Collections by Daisy Fried
“In My Destination, Daisy Fried writes with unsparing clarity from within grief, desire, motherhood, illness, and public anger. These poems attend closely to bodies, objects, and moments where private life collides with moral and civic force. Restless, comic, and exacting, Fried’s music refuses consolation while insisting on attention—choosing, again and again, not to turn away.”—Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Praise for Previous Collections by Daisy Fried
“In Daisy Fried’s The Year the City Emptied: After Baudelaire, the splenetic 1850s Paris of Les Fleurs du mal is translated or transmuted into the ‘angry Philly’ of the plague year 2020. Fried expresses the fear and isolation of the pandemic and the anguish of police killings and their aftermath, but most poignantly she writes about the personal ordeal of watching her husband’s mind and body disintegrate in his last year, and of trying to care for him without adequate resources.”—Roy White, The Los Angeles Review, reviewing a previous edition or volume
“These fresh interpretations revel in Baudelaire’s signature exaggerated and florid misery. Fried shows readers that Baudelaire’s poems have provocative things to say about 2020, tailoring them for modern times with her own original flourishes.”—Publishers Weekly, reviewing a previous edition or volume
About Daisy Fried, Author of My Destination
Daisy Fried is the author of five books of poetry: My Destination (2026), The Year the City Emptied (2022), Women’s Poetry: Poems and Advice (2013), My Brother is Getting Arrested Again (2006) a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and She Didn’t Mean to Do It (2000) which won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. She has been awarded Guggenheim, Hodder, and Pew fellowships, a Pushcart Prize, the Cohen Award from Ploughshares, and a Poetry magazine Editors Prize for the feature article “Sing, God-Awful Muse!,” about reading Paradise Lost, breastfeeding, and the importance of difficulty. A poetry critic and a member of the faculty of the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers, she lives in San Francisco.
You can connect with Daisy Fried on her website and read about her as well as read some of her poetry at The Poetry Foundation.
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Publisher: Flood Editions
ISBN Trade Paperback 9798991889445
Pub Date Oct 19, 2026
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