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by
Anna Meister (Author)
A reckoning with the past, a bargain with memory, and a prayer for forgetting, What Nothing gives voice to someone for whom sadness is more than a feeling; it’s a place of residence, familiar as a home and strange as a sudden storm. In her debut poetry collection, Anna Meister asks: how do you learn to live in a place like this? For someone who craves oblivion like salt, who knows what nothing is, staying alive is a lifetime of work. She discovers power in recognizing the dark – though naming it doesn’t make it any brighter but provides a way of seeing the shadows and giving them shape. With a persistent tenderness, Meister finds the somethings that lay a path and the someones who will guide the way, as they “queerlyweave] light into all my dark.” This is what we owe to one another: a hand in the darkness, a promise to be there on the other side.
Number of Pages: 108Dimensions: 0.22 x 8 x 8 INPublication Date: January 31, 2021
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