Marbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems offers practical and ingenious models of craft from established practitioners, seasoned advice, and creative prompts for poets at any stage in their career who are assembling a poetry manuscript.
Virginia Konchan is the author of the poetry collections Bel Canto (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2022), Hallelujah Time (Véhicule Press, 2021), Any God Will Do, and The End of Spectacle (Carnegie Mellon, 2020 and 2018), and a short story collection, Anatomical Gift (Noctuary Press, 2017). Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Yale Review, Boston Review, and The Believer.