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Synopsis
James Shea's collection deepens his exploration of the elegiac imagination, sending estranged speakers into new fields of quiet crisis. Orbiting a vast absence, Last Day of My Face reveals a kaleidoscopic perspective on impermanence: "Tomorrow / is a partial and promised gift."
Rich with reversals, short poems are wedged against skittery contemplations, and an easeful tone coexists with a vein of darkness. Akin to lucid dreaming, this startling volume builds toward a final poem that gathers fragments of selves into a wondrous whole.
Publisher information
- Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
- ISBN: 9781685970161
- Number of pages: 59
- Dimensions: 140 x 216 x 10 mm
- Weight: 116g
- Languages: English
