This new book by award-winning author Amy Newman explores as its
formal structure the 72 definitions for the word "fall." These
lovely, accessible poems span a narrative drama--from the creation
of the world and the subsequent exile of its first inhabitants,
through the downward movement of the human body in its surrender to
illness and the world's gravitational pull, to the beauty in the
descent of spent foliage in autumn.
Each definition of "fall" engenders its own poem, and the
definitions serve as poem titles. Section one explores the
theological sense of The Fall, and section two focuses on the
present world, addressing how the blemish of that Fall--real or
imagined, religious or cultural--exists in us as homesickness,
physical illness, and domestic and spiritual dissolution. The third
section attends to the very gesture of defining, of finding ways to
name and live in a world where both the landscape and the language
are vividly alive yet saturated with memory and loss.
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