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Gerson, Steve

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General Poetry

ISBN10: 1958182109
ISBN13: 9781958182109
Publisher: Spartan Press
Published: Jun 28 2022
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English


Steve Gerson's latest collection moves from light to dark. It begins with the kind of love poems that could only be written by someone who has loved for a long time. They are rife with powerful images that show us true love doesn't have to fade: your hands in mine as small as birdsong or stay with me as long as ink and paper remember. In part two, Gerson shatters us with images of loss like seawater salt, like acid rains, eroded her resolve into fissures or like planting corn in concrete. The final section of the book, Lost, takes the reader through the experience of various speakers who suffer trauma. Throughout the book, Gerson experiments with form, most notably with the erasure poems in the Lost section. This book begins with bird song, but it ends with an AK 47 and the Apocalypse. This great collection of poems is a knockout.

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