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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Searching for Signal

Searching for Signal

Cayer, Lori

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1773240919
ISBN13: 9781773240916
Publisher: Signature Editions
Published: Apr 15 2021
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

Searching for Signal is a long poem that bears witness to the quotidian, disorienting shifts of grief as a father makes his way toward his death over 3 seasons. This is mourning conducted in situ, the gift of observing one man quietly taking his leave and the impacted hole it leaves behind. The language is mix of narrative lyric and fragmentary breath-spaced verse; the silences are his private silences, alluding to memory, family trauma and shame. The hunter, the gatherer who never stopped trying for epiphanies, a daughter engaged in the same effort, frankly facing the span of a swift human lifetime that may pass without revelation or resolution. If there is redemption it is in the daughter bringing clarity to the physical condition of living and dying and the emotional intricacies of existence.

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