Comprising eighty-one poems 9-syllable 9-line poems, Paula Meehan's extraordinary new collection explores the subjects of loss, return, memory and the power of art, in which the linked but not strictly sequential poems act like tarot cards or i ching hexagrams, providing moments of clarity and insight during "the long night's journey into day". "The craft," as one poem observes of a glider riding a thermal,"is lighter than the learning". In that...
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