What Happens Is Neither (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781945588693)

A deeply-sensorial reflection on presence, absence, and the act of losing

"What Happens Is Neither / the end nor the beginning. / Yet we're wired to look for signs," offers the speaker of Angela Narciso Torres's latest collection, which approaches motherhood, aging, and mourning through a series of careful meditations. In music, mantra, and prayer, Torres explores the spaces in and around grief--in varying proximity to it and from different vantage points. She writes both structurally formal poems that enfold the emotionality of loss and free verse that loosens the latch on memory and lets us into the sensory worlds of the speaker's childhood and present. In poems set in two countries and homes, Torres considers what it means to leave a mark, vanish, and stay in one place. In a profound act of recollection and preservation, Torres shows us how to release part of ourselves but remain whole

Author: Angela Narciso Torres
ISBN-10: 1945588691
ISBN-13: 9781945588693
Publisher: Four Way Books
Language: English
Published: 02/15/2021
Pages: 110
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.00w x 0.40d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 03/01/2021 pg. 13
Publishers Weekly 04/19/2021