Absence by Ali Lewis Katherine Horrex brooding pastorals

brooding pastorals

razor-sharp memory

so that we accept the miraculous as something we need… the overriding impression is of a deft

lose intimacy

Absence by Ali Lewis Katherine Horrex brooding pastoralsAbsence, the third title in CHEERIO's acclaimed poetry series, is a book about nothing. Or nothings: losses, vacua, gaps. From the desolation at the heat death of the universe to the impassable distance between two people talking, and from the trust exercise of walking in darkness to experiments on the vacuum, Absence searches for what's missing and what we never had. Starting with the problem of how to represent that that isn't there, and ending with