How to Love the Empty Air

How to Love the Empty Air

New York Times bestselling nonfiction writer and poet Cristin Oâ€™Keefe Aptowiczâ€™s How to Love the Empty Air reaches new heights in her revelatory seventh collection of poetry. Continuing in her tradition of engaging autobiographical work, How to Love the Empty Air explores what happens when the impossible becomes realâ€•for better and for worse. Aptowiczâ€™s journey to find happiness and home in her ever-shifting world sees her struggling in cities throughout America. When her luck changesâ€•in love and in lifeâ€•she canâ€™t help but â€œtell the sun / tell the fields / tell the huge Texas skyâ€¦. / tell myself again and again until I believe it.â€ However, the upward trajectory of this new life is rocked by the sudden death of the poetâ€™s mother.

In the year that follows, Aptowicz battles the silencing power of grief with intimate poems burnished by loss and a hard-won humor, capturing the dance that all newly grieving must do between everyday living and the desire â€œto elope with this grief, / who is not your enemy, / this grief who maybe now is your best friend. / This grief, who is your husband, / the thing you curl into every night, / falling asleep in its armsâ€¦â€ As in her award-winning The Year of No Mistakes, Aptowicz counts her losses and her blessings, knowing how despite it all, life â€œripples boundless, like electricity, like joy / like... laughter, irresistible and bright, / an impossible thing to contain.â€

Country	USA
Author	Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
Binding	Paperback
EAN	9781938912801
ISBN	1938912802
Label	Write Bloody Publishing
Manufacturer	Write Bloody Publishing
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	88
PublicationDate	2018-03-20
Publisher	Write Bloody Publishing
Studio	Write Bloody Publishing
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

How to Love the Empty Air

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