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Circle Back: Poems
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ISBN10: 1639550984
ISBN13: 9781639550982
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: Mar 12 2024
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781639550982
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: Mar 12 2024
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
An aching meditation on the cyclical nature of grief and memory's limited capacity to preserve everything time takes from us.How does one make sense of loss--personal and collective? When language and memory are at capacity, where do we turn? Confronted with a year meant to end all / those to come, acclaimed poet Adam Clay questions whether anything is wide enough to contain what's left / of hope. In the absence of a clear way forward, the poems of Circle Back wander grief's strange and winding path. Along the way, the line between reality and dreams blurs: cows stare with otherworldly eyes, 78s play under cactus needles, a father becomes his own child, and the dead become something more complicated--a sketch turned to painting / left in a room dusty from / lack of passing through.
But amidst these liminal landscapes, a thread of promise persists in poetry. As flawed as language is, we still turn to it for longevity, for love, like Keats, / sketching himself back into place. Vulnerable and nuanced, Clay details the difficult work of healing--and in doing so, captures those needful moments of reprieve in grief's strange circle. Two friends dashing through a sprinkler. A garden of startled birds. Out for a run some gray morning: a sudden patch of wildflowers. Circle Back is a bared heart, one readers will find as thoughtful as it is tender.
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