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Unbalancing ACT
Paperback
Series: Stahlecker Selections
Publisher Price: $17.95
ISBN13: 9781961897922
Publisher: Four Way Books
Published: Sep 15 2026
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
Unbalancing Act is a haunting collection of poems about the particular physics of loving and losing--about the way grief, desire, memory, and awe can tip a life off its axis, and right it again. The speaker moves through fire and water, childhood, intimacy and abandonment, always with one eye on the natural world: bears, whales, rivers, storms, animals sleeping in impossible ways. The poems are lyric but narrative-driven, often darkly funny, and fascinated--bordering on obsessed--with the strange facts and small surrealities that make ordinary life feel mythic.
At its heart, the book is about imbalance as a kind of truth: the way trauma warps time, the way love can feel like weather, the way the body keeps trying to survive even when the mind wants to disappear. It's a collection for readers who like their beauty a little feral--poems that are tender but not precious, intelligent but not academic, and emotionally sharp without ever losing their sense of wonder.
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