"Best known as a memoirist, Morrison returns to poetry after 11 years with a masterclass of lyric distillation and charged observation, demonstrating that nothing is beneath poetic deliberation. His subjects range from social and political justice to meditations on poetic heroes such as Elizabeth Bishop and sonnet sequences elegising the writer's sister. The interwoven specificity and occasional nature of the poems is captivating:"
"This first UK publication introduces readers to the current US poet laureate's bold vision of the world's fragility: one of unceasing iridescence and glimmer, even in the face of ecological destruction and dilapidation. While the title suggests a sonic organisation, it may be more apt to understand the poems as painterly brushstrokes. When you've / worked this long your art is no longer art / but a wand that wakes your eyes to what is."
One collection marks a return to poetry after eleven years, presenting tightly wrought lyrics that treat every subject as worthy of poetic deliberation. Themes include social and political justice, homage to poetic predecessors, and elegies for a sister, conveyed through interwoven specificity and controlled movement in memory and language. Another collection offers a painterly vision of fragility, using iridescent imagery and single-line stanzas that decrescendo to em dashes to render ecological decline and bodily disappearance with eerie, replenishing beauty. A third collection uses taut lines to meditate on survival, erasure, and remaining alert in precarious conditions.
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