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Veliz Books, 2021.
In this fierce and enthralling book, Tina Cane records a time of pandemic and climate change, regimes and threats, murder hornets and dying seas, quarantine baking and leaf-blower protests, stimulus payments and food chains, gentrification and apps, conspiracies and personal theories, doom-scrolling and Great Conjunctions, fake narratives and disposable masks—and of sheltering in place when poetry is the only solace: the “iambic in the darkness.” Love is “a process of education” and memory “is a poet,” she tells us, making new paths for us to understand this painful time. With boldness and grace, Cane negotiates a tense present, a distressing future, and the wish for a “perfect past” tense. Her poems create a moving map so that we don’t struggle alone in our “personal weather” and remind us that we are also able to be “overpowered by flowering magnolias.”
— Camille Guthrie, author of Diamonds
Veliz Books, 2021.
In this fierce and enthralling book, Tina Cane records a time of pandemic and climate change, regimes and threats, murder hornets and dying seas, quarantine baking and leaf-blower protests, stimulus payments and food chains, gentrification and apps, conspiracies and personal theories, doom-scrolling and Great Conjunctions, fake narratives and disposable masks—and of sheltering in place when poetry is the only solace: the “iambic in the darkness.” Love is “a process of education” and memory “is a poet,” she tells us, making new paths for us to understand this painful time. With boldness and grace, Cane negotiates a tense present, a distressing future, and the wish for a “perfect past” tense. Her poems create a moving map so that we don’t struggle alone in our “personal weather” and remind us that we are also able to be “overpowered by flowering magnolias.”
— Camille Guthrie, author of Diamonds
