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Loss and memory. The poems of the first section of Irish poet
Leeanne Quinn's debut collection explore the intimacies of a
sibling relationship, and revisit it from a distance travelled
since, where new experience is "the earth's irreproachable /
response to your absence." Other poems intersperse this main
narrative, inspired by a variety of subjects, from Gertrude Stein
to the Drogheda-born artist Nano Reid, natural disasters to the
complex territory of broken relationships. Pain is evoked, sensed
never far from the surface, but the telling remains oblique, the
particulars refusing a simple summary or conclusion. Life goes on,
in what one of the poems in the second section calls "this awful
business of living," a variant on a phrase by Elizabeth Bishop
whose letters, in counterpoint to the book's first section, prompt
and provide an external departure point and reference.
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