the vanishings & other poems in Bloomington, MN

Poetry. "I marvel at the beauty, fragility and longing of these poems with their lost masterpieces, the house one can't find or can't get into, the orphans, the telephone that rings and rings. Not that the poems regret a lost love or any particular past. They knock at some door of mystery, which, because we exist in bodies, we simply can't open. the vanishings is deeply thought provoking, untranslatable and brilliant. "—Jeanne Murray Walker
"[W]hat Myhr accomplishes, and what places this book way above and beyond any other such debut in a generation is that she is able to be a realist and to step outside of time in the same poem, often in the same line. Her work is filled with...the urgency of the late 20th/early 21st century. We recognize the landscape of the 'exile' which is very much of our own moment."—Ilya Kaminsky