Seven Notebooks includes distinct poetic sequences that offer diverse reflections on the world as it is seen, known, imagined, and dreamed; our lives as they are felt, thought, desired, and lived. Not a novel in verse, not a poetic journal, but a lyric chronicle, Seven Notebooks provides a season by season accounting of a year in the life of its narrator, from spring in Chicago to summer at the Jersey shore to winter in Miami Beach. It reclaims poetry territory long abandoned to prose, a characteristic ambition of Campbell McGrath, one of the most honored, accessible, and humanistically engaged poets of our time.