Beginning where "The White Queen" (Woman With Crows) ends, in the loss of โmemory, cleverness, concentrationโ and the hope of โlight through the cracks,โ this new book by poet Ruth Thompson explores aging, loss, and the โdelaminationโ of the earth whose body she shares.โWe are blown here out of sight of ourselves,โ she writes, โstaggering and dismayed.โYet dissolution resolves in expansion, laughter, joy โ ...Full description
Beginning where "The White Queen" (Woman With Crows) ends, in the loss of โmemory, cleverness, concentrationโ and the hope of โlight through the cracks,โ this new book by poet Ruth Thompson explores aging, loss, and the โdelaminationโ of the earth whose body she shares.โWe are blown here out of sight of ourselves,โ she writes, โstaggering and dismayed.โYet dissolution resolves in expansion, laughter, joy โ โseeing, in this dire wind, what there is to worship.โ