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2 a.m. with Keats
Paperback
Publisher Price: $15.00
ISBN13: 9781949279337
Publisher: Nixes Mate Books
Published: Apr 15 2021
Pages: 62
Weight: 0.16
Height: 0.13 Width: 6.50 Depth: 6.50
Language: English
As I read Eileen Cleary's 2 a.m. with Keats, I felt breathless, suspended in a place of red keys, plum stones, cats, willows, and sphinxes. It would minimize the reach of this brilliant collection to call it an elegy or a eulogy, or even a love story to Lucie Brock-Broido or John Keats - though it is all of those things. Here, in this place where the elm says Grief and the oak, Grief, the poems shine and scatter across the pages like a phantom of stars. Cleary engages the rhythms of another world, of sweet music honeyed and unheard, where Lucie reaches forty years back. . . .
Embracing the quirkiness of Brock-Broido's imagery and the love of Keats's line, Cleary creates a séance of astronomy, searching for the origins of human and poetic magic, where looking for signs means I've / once been broken. I will return to 2 a.m. with Keats again and again, to remember Lucie and Keats, to inhale rose milk . . . mint. - Jennifer Martelli, author of In the Year of Ferraro
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