In The Yellow Room, Amy Gordon has composed a unique poetic songbook about mortality, bravery, and time. The first line of the book-"Stare into the yellow room"-is both directive and guide to the self and the reader, given by a speaker navigating the rocky terrain of living with illness, death, and grief but writing about it with sure-footed grace. Gordon's poems are at once inviting and surprising; they take bold, associative leaps and unpack and...
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