A stunningly mature and confident debut collection, The Manageable Cold showcases Timothy McBride's mastery of a wide range of forms and subjects, combining consummate craftsmanship with emotional richness. Whether his attention is focused on boxing, jazz, contranyms, science, or relationships, McBride breathes new life into the sonnet and the villanelle and handles blank verse with the utmost ease. The combination of traditional techniques and McBride's thoroughly modern sensibility gives rise to poems that resemble the rigorously embodied works of Robert Frost, Howard Nemerov, and Mary Oliver, appearing at once utterly fresh and immemorially old.