From the celebrated author of feeld comes a formally commanding
third collection, dexterously recounting the survival of a period
suffused with mourning. Jos Charles's poems communicate with one
another as neurons do: sharp, charged, in language that predates
language. "A scandal / three cartons red / in a hedge / in / each
the thousand eye research of flies." With acute lyricism, she
documents how a person endures seemingly relentless
devastation--California wildfires, despotic legislation, housing
insecurity--amid illusions of safety. "I wanted to believe,"
Charles declares, "a corner a print leaned to / a corner can save /
a people." Still the house falls apart. Death visits and lingers.
Belief proves, again and again, that belief alone is not enough.
Yet miraculously, one might still manage to seek--propelled by
love, or hope, or sometimes only momentum--something better. There
is a place where there are no futile longings, no persistent
institutional threats to one's life. Poems might take us there;
tenderness, too, as long as we can manage to keep moving. "A
current / gives as much as it has," writes Charles--despite fire,
despite loss. Harrowing and gorgeous, a Year & other poems is
an astonishing new collection from a poet of "unusual beauty and
lyricism" (New Yorker).
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