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This "quiet and vulnerable sequence of ethereal fragments, letters, and poems [traces] a narrative of love and healing in the afterlife of a parent's death. Seasons turn and a life is built despite the ruin. Each poem is a music box of prayer, of the decisions made and yet to be made. In these soul-searching poems, we see a speaker whittled down to the core of fear, attempting to love"--
Page by page, line by line, and sometimes even word by word, these poems feel fragmented to me, searching, the way grief—which is what I think this book is about—can make you feel splintered and wandering.