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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Capable Ways

Capable Ways

Challender, Craig

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1542490561
ISBN13: 9781542490566
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Feb 17 2017
Pages: 66
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.16 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
The odds are long. And I / have permission to speak. In a voice as authentic as it is powerful, Challender gives us plain-spoken, heartfelt poems about family, place, love, and loss. Dipping into the well of memory, he evokes generations while recalling a life until now, his sixtieth year, when he has begun / to wear my death / lightly, try / it on for size. Whether recounting a dream enacting suppressed rage towards a dead brother, watching the three fates attend a son's birth, or riffing on popular culture or academia, the poems run deep with currents of empathy and human connection. They are sometimes dark, but it's a darkness that notices the beauty of a lake spackled with light; / leaf's syllable, wind-stirred and can admit joy, as in a beloved daughter seen as a gift / I wish I could say came from us: when / whoever's DNA dice rolled your way they came up elevens / and sevens. A moving and beautiful book and handy antidote to contemporary social-media-obsessed poetry. - Rebecca Foust, author of Paradise Drive, winter of the Press 53 Award for Poetry

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