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BEND IN THE STAIR IBD

LILY POETRY REVIEW
09 / 2021
9781736599044
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Sinopsis

David MillerâÇÖs new book,áBend in the Stair, captures the benchmarks of a life through a surrealálens, heightening each moment with hisáverbal magic: You made it/past theádivorce, then five years/in a gnat-cloud of stillborn lusts.áOr in the knock-out opening poem, 'Retrieving My FatherâÇÖsáAshes on My Birthday'áwhere Miller contrasts his fatherâÇÖs exit-compactedáwordless gray grit-with his booming entry into this world: pissing,áscreeching, astounded. Whatábecomes of ourálawn egrets and un-mailed love letters? Where do we go drivingáawayáfrom the end? áMillerâÇÖs precise, imagistic inquiries spark off the page, then settle deep intoáthe heart. This is a book IâÇÖll return to againáand again.-Dzvinia Orlowsky, author of Bad Harvest , Silvertone, and Convertible NightBend in the Stair is framed by the poetâÇÖs transition from oldest child to oldest member of his birth family, following the death of his father. Reflections on the lives of his parents are woven with seasonal-cycle poems in settings variously suggesting home and the renewals that are always possible in familiar places. Humor is present here, as well as elegy. Broader events, including pandemic and environmental decay, enter the story as they must. What do you do next with what youâÇÖve been given? How do your lifeâÇÖs traces survive? These are among the questions addressed in this collection.

PVP
15,01