“Sharon Fagan McDermott’s Life Without Furniture is remarkable for the generosity of its attention and the precision with which it renders the objects of that attention…These poems move through interior and exterior landscapes, between elegy and praise song. Through such keen observation, the ordinary is uplifted, the way that, in ‘Summer Prayer: Pennsylvania,’ the ‘beloved dead’ ‘console us with such luminous days / that we remember them all over again.’”