In lean poems, trimmed of all extraneous words and yet full of unsettling details, Gary Young exposes our collective tragedies. From national crime news to his mother’s suicide, he brings the narrative style of a storyteller to descriptions of pain and loss. Winner of the Poetry Society of America's 2003 William Carlos Williams award, No Other Life brings together in one volume the three books of Young's trilogy: Days, Braver Deeds, and If He Had.