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This Late Hour
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639802470
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Feb 2 2023
Pages: 82
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.17 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
-Tara Betts, author of Refuse to Disappear
In this attentive, precise, and ultimately elegiac collection of verse, the poet's tone often resembles Philip Larkin's, with just as much bracing mordancy and colloquial ease. But whether caustic or soothing, Burt Myers's poems also have an attractive sense of tact-call it compassion. In their presence, as he says in one of his best, we lean in close, / delighting in the delicacy.
-Mark Jarman, author of The Heronry (poetry) and Dailiness (prose)
[M]arriage, and birth, / and death, and thoughts of these such Larkinesque concerns are at the heart of Burt Myers's debut collection. Family ties of every sort-grandparents, parents, siblings, a wife-are commemorated in these deftly turned poems. Binding these ties with memorable speech, Myers becomes the still center, around which these human connections revolve. What's most touching is how much a part of him they are, a reminder of the extent to which we are all the sum of such connections, which is to say the sum of our ability to love.
-David Yezzi, author of More Things in Heaven: New and Selected Poems
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