How to Love the Empty Air

How to Love the Empty Air

New York Times bestselling nonfiction writer and poet Cristin Oâ€™Keefe Aptowiczâ€™s How to Love the Empty Air reaches new heights in her revelatory seventh collection of poetry. Continuing in her tradition of engaging autobiographical work, How to Love the Empty Air explores what happens when the impossible becomes realâ€•for better and for worse. Aptowiczâ€™s journey to find happiness and home in her ever-shifting world sees her struggling in cities throughout America. When her luck changesâ€•in love and in lifeâ€•she canâ€™t help but â€œtell the sun / tell the fields / tell the huge Texas skyâ€¦. / tell myself again and again until I believe it.â€ However, the upward trajectory of this new life is rocked by the sudden death of the poetâ€™s mother.

In the year that follows, Aptowicz battles the silencing power of grief with intimate poems burnished by loss and a hard-won humor, capturing the dance that all newly grieving must do between everyday living and the desire â€œto elope with this grief, / who is not your enemy, / this grief who maybe now is your best friend. / This grief, who is your husband, / the thing you curl into every night, / falling asleep in its armsâ€¦â€ As in her award-winning The Year of No Mistakes, Aptowicz counts her losses and her blessings, knowing how despite it all, life â€œripples boundless, like electricity, like joy / like... laughter, irresistible and bright, / an impossible thing to contain.â€
Country USA
Brand Write Bloody Publishing
Manufacturer Write Bloody Publishing
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber Refer to Sapnet.
ReleaseDate 2018-03-20
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781938912801

Country	USA
Brand	Write Bloody Publishing
Manufacturer	Write Bloody Publishing
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	Refer to Sapnet.
ReleaseDate	2018-03-20
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781938912801

How to Love the Empty Air

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