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Now, Now

Now, Now

Maier, Jennifer

Paperback

Series: Pitt Poetry

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $20.00

ISBN10: 0822962632
ISBN13: 9780822962632
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: Oct 25 2013
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.90 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
In Now, Now, Jennifer Maier's second poetry collection, time is of the essence.

Moving with quantum ease through the porous membranes of the past, present, and future, the speaker wonders: What is each moment but the swirling confluence (or shy first meeting) of past and future--of what happened, and what-has-not-yet-happened but will?

Such phenomenological questions are sparked by ordinary events: a friend's passion for jigsaw puzzles; an imagined conversation with a neighbor's dog; a meditation on the uses of modern poetry. Here, in language at once elegant and agile, intimate and universal, the author probes beneath the surface of happenstance, moving with depth, humor, and compassion into the heart of our shared predicament: that of loving what we cannot keep.

But if time in these poems is relative, it bends toward grace--even, as the title suggests, toward consolation. Taken together, the poems invite us to raise a glass to the way we're each held light and golden in Time's mouth, and to savor something of the eternal--distilled, sparkling, already lost--inside every now.

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