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What Nothing

What Nothing

Meister, Anna

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1951979117
ISBN13: 9781951979119
Publisher: Sundress Publications
Published: Jan 31 2021
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.22 Width: 8.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

A reckoning with the past, a bargain with memory, and a prayer for forgetting, What Nothing gives voice to someone for whom sadness is more than a feeling; it's a place of residence, familiar as a home and strange as a sudden storm. In her debut poetry collection, Anna Meister asks: how do you learn to live in a place like this? For someone who craves oblivion like salt, who knows what nothing is, staying alive is a lifetime of work. She discovers power in recognizing the dark - though naming it doesn't make it any brighter but provides a way of seeing the shadows and giving them shape. With a persistent tenderness, Meister finds the somethings that lay a path and the someones who will guide the way, as they queerly [weave] light into all my dark. This is what we owe to one another: a hand in the darkness, a promise to be there on the other side.

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