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THE SLOW SUBTRACTION IBD

JOSEPH POWELL
CONCRETE WOLF
11 / 2019
9781936657483
Inglés

Sinopsis

&ldquo,I&rsquo,ve never read anything remotely like The Slow Subtraction: A.L.S., Joseph Powell&rsquo,s deeply loving collection that tracks how it is to lose the beloved one day at a time. These profoundly beautiful poems broach the place that Emily Dickinson called &lsquo,internal difference, / Where the meanings, are.&rsquo, Honesty is a difficult art, you will feel its powers grieve and restore you, over and over.&rdquo, ~ Nancy Eimers, author of Oz &ldquo,The Slow Subtraction is a stunning, heartbreaking collection made more poignant for Powell&rsquo,s trenchant eye on the devastations caused by A.L.S on his late wife, the poet Judith Kleck. This chronology of subtractions to &lsquo,the staircase / of her brain,&rsquo, and the ravages of a body&rsquo,s gradual dying, create a luminous elegy. The &lsquo,opulence in the skin&rsquo,s sweet torment&rsquo, might feel like &lsquo,all the back doors opened into coffins of alley light,&rsquo, but there is grace here, enlarging &lsquo,the sway of events, /the way pettiness is candleflicker against the passing night.&rsquo,&rdquo, ~ Adrianne Kalfopoulou, author of The History of Too Much