MacKie Jv Blanton: At the Precipice of My Memory's Deadline Forward, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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In At the Precipice of My Memory's Deadline Forward, Mackie Blanton writes from the vantage of a life spent listening and teaching: language, history, and the physics of being alive. These poems range across pandemic grief, New Orleans, and spacetime itself. A contemporary becomes Haman; a coconut cake conjures a cousin in Bay St. Louis; a gas station encounter splinters the speaker into four selves. Blanton's artistry is layered with wordplay, attentive equally to the slip of a memory and the shape of conversations throughout history. Tender, furious, and unafraid, this is poetry that refuses to settle, at home with serious readers of verse and those elegiac poets seated at the end of the bar.