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The Goodbye World Poem

The Goodbye World Poem

Turner, Brian

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 1949944549
ISBN13: 9781949944549
Publisher: Alice James Books
Published: Sep 12 2023
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
While Turner (author of Here, Bullet) grieves the loss of his wife to cancer, The Goodbye World Poem is a series of poetic meditations that sit quietly in the silent afterward of someone's death. Losing his wife, his father, and his best friend in quick succession, Turner explores those relationships through the complicated lenses of moments in time, weaving in and out of memory to explore the disparate history that fuses together to form ones psyche. Throughout the collection, a prevailing motion recurs: that of submersion, sinking, plunging into the deep--whether it be the ocean or the subconscious. In other words, this book is a kind of poetic biography, a journey of the self that ultimately pours everything that's happened in a life--all of the love and all of the loss--into the moment of death itself. The poems are meant to be celebratory and sublime in their comprehension of what happens to our memories when we die. And, if the reader is inclined--the reader becomes the vessel who holds all of this in their own imagination, carrying Turner and his memories forward into their own lives in a small way.

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