What Happens Is Neither / Angela Narciso Torres.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Torres, Angela Narciso, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (85 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Four Way Books, [2021]

Summary:

A deeply-sensorial reflection on presence, absence, and the act of losing "What Happens Is Neither / the end nor the beginning. / Yet we're wired to look for signs, " offers the speaker of Angela Narciso Torres's latest collection, which approaches motherhood, aging, and mourning through a series of careful meditations. In music, mantra, and prayer, Torres explores the spaces in and around grief-in varying proximity to it and from different vantage points. She writes both structurally formal poems that enfold the emotionality of loss and free verse that loosens the latch on memory and lets us into the sensory worlds of the speaker's childhood and present. In poems set in two countries and homes, Torres considers what it means to leave a mark, vanish, and stay in one place. In a profound act of recollection and preservation, Torres shows us how to release part of ourselves but remain whole

Contents:

Intro

Cover Page

Title Page

Dedication

Copyright Page

Contents

If You Go to Bed Hungry

Stone Fruit

Sundowning

Self-Portrait as Rosary Beads

Recuerdo a mi Madre

Feather

Kinds of Stillness

Disappearing Act

Ode to a Realistic AM/FM Radio at a Church Rummage Sale

Prelude and Fugue

Alzheimer's

Lines from a Journal I

Pearl Diving

Confessions of a Transplant

Translating the Dead

Slash-and-burn

Concha

The Immigrant Visits Her Mother

Warm Spell, February

Pont des Arts

September, Chicago

Repainting the House

Shed

Narrow Bed

At Lula's

To the One We Lost

Ode to the Areola

The Foul Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart

Return

After Dinner at Fisherman's Wharf

Self-Portrait as Water

Four Years after Diagnosis

Relief Map

To Replace a Tree Eaten by Ash Borers Requires a New Vocabulary

August

Nocturne

Some Uses of Friction

Watch

What Isn't There

Suburban Backyard in Late July

Lines Borrowed from a Marriage and Other Places

The Abscission Layer

What Happens Is Neither

Lilli's Urn

The Morning I Hear

Breathe

Reading This Poem at My Father's Funeral I Choke on the Word "Balsamic"

Chore

Lines from a Journal II

Via Negativa

Last

Sea Psalm

What I Learned This Week

In the Dream I Return Home

Self-Portrait as Revision

Notes

Acknowledgments

About the Author.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.