Anxious Attachment

In Anxious Attachment, Shanaya Stephens maps the quiet architecture of loving someone more than they let you show it — the clawclip kept as proof of a memory, the food made just a little more careful so they'll stay a moment longer, the arms that hold you only on the condition that you don't ask for more. Across nineteen poems moving from infatuation to devotion to a hard-won kind of waking up, St...