“how little it costs
to let the world astonish us…” (A Country Without Words)
River Paw Press is delighted to announce the pre-sale of The Staggering Sum, a poetry chapbook by James Lilliefors, the Finalist for the 2026 Silent River Poetry Prize.
At once intimate and expansive, The Staggering Sum is a contemporary American poetry collection about mortality, remembrance, love, family, friendship, and the difficult grace of remaining fully alive to the world.
“Having lived so long under star-blind skies,
I’d nearly forgotten the staggering sum of so much light ……” (The Staggering Sum)
In the poems of The Staggering Sum, James Lilliefors turns the ordinary thresholds of life, friendship, family, illness, aging, grief, memory, travel, and the natural world into meditations on what endures and what disappears, with clarity, tenderness, and philosophical depth.
River Paw Press offers a special pre-sale discount on this magnificent chapbook for a limited time and invites readers, educators, libraries, and reviewers to reserve a copy of the book while the discounted rate is available.
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