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Night Halves
Paperback
Publisher Price: $18.00
ISBN13: 9781957062310
Publisher: Gunpowder Press
Published: Jun 24 2026
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Christine Marshall's collection is a winner of the Dryden-Vreeland Prize from Gunpowder Press. 'Joy is seldom pure' we're told in Night Halves' very first poem, but reading this book is pure joy, even though it puts us face-to- face with the kinds of difficulties that can make a person describe herself as 'a glass box/slipping from the shelf.' There is childbirth (Blind. Headlong), the brain fog of brand-new motherhood (There, there now. / Not a cloud in sight- / or is it all-cloud? / Never mind.), watching an aging parent disintegrate (His teeth have turned so brittle, now / that night's unrolled its black tongue/in his mouth), and the speaker's own precarious health (Pretend I can / know whether I'm treading the past/or holding the future's hand). These poems, born of acute honesty and deep observation, abound in exquisite descriptions and understated profundities, always keeping us aware that The world is an equation, /the sky too slim to hold us all.
-Jacqueline Osherow,
Author of My Lookalike at the Krishna Temple: Poems
Rendered with an artist's eye, creating a powerful collection of lyrical meditations testing out what pain and grief will hold, the poet always on the edge of a 'sense of meaning / just beyond the field where I stand / with my boy.' Lovely.
-Glenn Freeman, Author of Drinking with O'Hara
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