What the Deep Water Knows: A Stunning Debut Poetry Collection from the Bestselling Author of the Paper Palace

By Miranda Cowley Heller

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Paper Palace, a Reese's Book Club Pick, comes a debut poetry collection that paints a moving portrait of a rich life from childhood to love to marriage to motherhood to divorce and beyond.

"Breathtaking . . . will change the way you see the world." --Daisy Goodwin, author of The American Heiress

What the Deep Water Knows by Miranda Cowley Heller is a series of exquisite reflections on love in all its seasons. In poetry that is lyrical and quick-witted, gentle and devastatingly frank, Cowley Heller contemplates time, marriage, and motherhood. Her words will envelop you and bring you to the water's emotional edge:

"I stand in bare feet at the break,
icy water soaking my cuffs.
A scoop of pelicans dives on bait fish
- relentless, cruel.
Kelp fronds mourn them in the glassy deep.
A hermit crab creeping on to shore
skittles its way across the sand.
In the blue, a soot tern wings loop-the-loops.
And I lift my face into the wind."

from "Things the Tide Has Discarded"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F1R67M13
• ISBN13: 9798992427622
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Zibby Publishing
• Length: 144 Pages