In his most personal collection to date, Brian Bartlett meditates
upon time and family. We share his son's discovery of newborn
spiders and his daughter's first grasp of infinity as a concept. In
companion poems on the births of his mother and father, Bartlett
makes you feel as if you were alive at those moments in history.
The opening poem, "All the Train Trips," displays an uncanny sense
of homes and families lost and the casual friendships struck up in
conversations in the "bar car." "Pearly Everlasting" expresses a
longing to register the world in the body through the naming of
flowers. Books and the history of poetry shape time for Bartlett,
whether in found poems woven from the words of books inherited from
ancestors or in the words of great poets that, despite the
distance, convey a shared sense of humanity. Wrestling with time as
if he were both Jacob and the angel, Bartlett speaks both for
time's dominion and for human mutability.
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