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Twenty Pandemicals
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639800612
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Dec 18 2021
Pages: 40
Weight: 0.16
Height: 0.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
-Ned Balbo, author of The Cylburn Touch-Me-Nots
In Twenty Pandemicals, Charlotte Innes offers us a conversation of poems embracing the intimate and the immense in this time of global distress. Plague, politics, the fires of climate change, the quotidian experience of cleaning and shopping, of food and flowers-all participate. We share the emotional journey of having felt so separate for / so long. At the same time, the poems persistently stretch our perspective as they carry us from a blitz / of order to a madness // we can't control until we find ourselves in a place where we prepare to drown or laugh our joyous socks off. These poems are sandpipers... gathering daily to parse the ocean's / endless argument on weight and froth.
-Hilda Weiss, curator, Poetry.LA, a video gallery of poets in Southern California
These jaunty and defiantly upbeat poems, called pandemicals by poet Charlotte Innes, bring a kind of calming order to our disorderly times. Delightfully iambic, each poem is written in rhyming quatrains which give the collection a formality that soothes and elevates, even though each poem confronts in some fashion the harsh realities of 2020. While she bravely observes the serpent's shadow, and admits that this won't end well, she also encourages her readers to imagine cures for sadness, something slant, old scars / that signal mending... a banjo bright as stars. Charlotte Innes is a lyric poet at the height of her powers, and this book is a gift to all of us who are struggling to thrive despite the very real fears and dangers of these times.
-Gail Wronsky, author of Under the Capsized Boat We Fly: New and Selected Poems
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