After his wife, poet Ilyse Kusnetz, passed away from cancer, someone on Wikipedia edited Turner’s author entry and noted that Turner and Kusnetz were married up until the date she died. This was a painful thing for Turner to discover and come to terms with, so he wrote a poem, “Wedding Vows,” to explore how he felt and what it means to be married—even after one of the lovers has died. This is how the book came to be. Will have QR codes within the book that link to an instrumental album created specifically for the poems in this collection, performed by Brian Turner himself along with his band.