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False Horizons
Paperback
Publisher Price: $16.99
ISBN13: 9781970256192
Publisher: Moonpath Press
Published: Jul 1 2026
Pages: 52
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.12 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This little book holds a mother's unbounded grief in poems graceful and adamant, truthful and amazed. There is never closure after a child's death, Laura Urban Perry teaches us, but street lights and galaxies still shine, sometimes in waters stirred by a kayak paddle. Here is her beautifully rendered transition from one world to another-not beyond great pain but in concert with it.
- Kathleen Flenniken, author of Plume and Post Romantic
In False Horizons, Laura Urban Perry uses language as a telescope and a microscope to explain her journey that Even God dares not try-through grief after her son dies. She juxtaposes words such as asymmetry, hypothesis, and machinery with stray, cradle, and music and wrapping paper. This is a hauntingly beautiful telling from yesterday's sweet ordinary to the kintsugi repair of / gold in the fracture.
-Susan Landgraf, author of Out of a Land of Alkali & Chromate
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