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I Only Left for Tea: Poems

I Only Left for Tea: Poems

Black, Al

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1942081006
ISBN13: 9781942081005
Publisher: Muddy Ford Press LLC
Published: Aug 29 2014
Pages: 82
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.17 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
We return here often, says Al Black in the book's title poem, to resume mid-sentence our conversation upon my deck. That's the feel of this book, a kind of wide-ranging conversation with a friend. Even as the book teases out in confessional poems the relation between the past and the present, the author's origins in the Midwest and his life now in the American South, and even as it opens out into broader perspective in voices and stories that spin through the heart of the book, it comes back to the quiet intimacy and vulnerability that drives this collection. Leavetaking and loss haunt the book, but a desire for connection and continuity keeps us coming back to the deck for that gift of time together. - Ed Madden, author of Nest

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