Instructions for the LoversDawn Lundy Martin A taut, tender collection of poems woven with sadness and loss dealing with aging, attachments, and the precarity of life. 'Dawn Lundy Martins poems read like a real time excavation of what poetry can and cant do,' writes Maggie Nelson. In Instructions for The Lovers, her most stripped down, direct work to date, Martin creates a poetic field dense with thought, image, and sound as she reflects on her relationship with her mother,