Description

Persea, paperback

Publication Date:January 4, 2022

Publisher Marketing:Probing and elegiac new poems from the author ofThe Cold and The Rust

Written in the years following the sudden death of a cherished friend,Arrythmiatraces the shock doctrine of grief as it electrifies the lives of those left behind. Alliances shift. Loss multiplies. Poems call out from the body, wrestling the twin impossibilities of memory and meaning in language that is by turns starkly simple and twistingly inventive. A tribute to queer friendship, these poems weave chronic grief (a damaged planet, social injustice) with the stab of a loved ones sudden absenceof what happens to the vibrant particulars of a life when it ends.