The Book of Endings: Akron series in poetry by Leslie Harrison
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Overview: The poems in The Book of Endings try to make sense of, or at least come to some kind of reckoning with absence-the death of the author’s mother, the absence of the beloved, the absence of an accountable god, cicadas, the dead stars arriving, the dead moon aglow in the night sky.
Genre: Fiction | General Fiction/Classics | Poetry
Advance Praise for The Book of Endings:
Leslie Harrison’s truly marvelous new collection The Book of Endings works constantly at the edge of articulation, at the breakdown of language and thought: “what / remains is one person in a box is a system collapse / is sky holding ground holding stone holding hole / holding hands holding on black hole without end / the earth gave us everything took it back again.” In these hauntingly incantatory lines, the Eucharist is elegiacally holding hands with the expanding and contracting universe, eternity with oblivion and recreation. Love, endurance, and the planet are all empty as a hole and yet, like these poems, solid as stone.
—Andrew Hudgins
The mother has died, the speaker’s hair silvers in the moonlight, and spring, New Englandy as ever, does not come as promised. But “the sky keeps showing off amusing itself” and the cold ground can be worked into “a blanket.” Comfort is at hand in Leslie Harrison’s The Book of Endings, poems of loss that yet offer uplift, music, words whose meaning, once unpacked, bring relief: “The final absence of air cyanosis,” the speaker reminds us, is “from kyanous which is Greek which just means blue.”
—Christine Schutt
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