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    612-822-4611

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Timeful Motif

Timeful Motif

Denis, Carmine

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 2925437990
ISBN13: 9782925437994
Publisher: Pierre Turcotte Editor
Published: Feb 9 2026
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.37 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Timeful Motif is a haunting and luminous collection that explores the fragile intersections of time, memory, desire, and perception. Through a wide range of forms-lyrical fragments, narrative reveries, and meditative sequences-Carmine Denis invites the reader into landscapes where inner and outer worlds blur, and where meaning is constantly assembled and undone. These poems move through cities and small towns, houses and thresholds, winter mornings and summer interiors, tracing moments of stillness charged with unease or wonder. Familiar scenes-a window, a bell, a road, a body at rest-become sites of transformation, where language probes the limits of vision, faith, and intimacy. Throughout the collection, time is not linear but folded, recurring in motifs of return, loss, and suspended expectancy. Drawing on myth, ritual, and everyday experience alike, Denis's voice is both precise and elusive, attentive to texture, light, and silence. The poems resist easy resolution, offering instead a sustained meditation on how we inhabit the present while haunted by what has passed and what remains out of reach. Timeful Motif is a work of quiet intensity, inviting readers to linger, to look again, and to listen closely to what unfolds between words.

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