WINNER of the 2016 Mary Ballard Poetry Chapbook Prize. From the sweetness of picking blackberries while one is dying to witnessing how cancer "hollows bones," the poems in Take wing speak lyrically of the process of letting go. "The loss of loved ones is central to our shared humanity, and with Take Wing, David Allen Sullivan has given us poems that confront death with the mineral strength of a spiritual warrior and at the same time sing the world like the gentlest lover. " Rosemary Catacalos, author of Again for the First Time. "These poems are beacons lighting the liminal space between the body's heat and its inevitable decline. The tunnels they take us through are leading, always, toward a place of greater heat." Danusha Lameris, author of The Moons of August.