Threaded with rivers, birds, and trees, Interior with Poplar addresses transience and resilience—the desire to lay everything down set against the will to go on. In this collection, Leatha Kendrick alternately celebrates the deep joys of a long marriage and the equal imperative of separateness and solitude. The poems in Interior with Poplar render roles the poet takes up and abandons, places she loves and leaves, and aging as shadow and as light, landing with jubilation in uncertainty.