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Book SynopsisA philosophical tour de force melding astrophysics and grief by the American maestra of the prose poem
Trade Review"Waldrop’s art wrenches clarity out of disorientation, and rather than to distraction, drives us, inimitably toward the keenest attention, to words, her words, and the world." -- John Keene - Drunken Boat
"Rosmarie Waldrop’s life work has cultivated a trenchant penchant for the liminal, the interstitial, the hybrid, the fertile ground between identities and homelands." -- Kevin Carollo - Rain Taxi
"[Waldrop’s poetry] makes us think hard about the way language works, and about how words catalyze reality, rather than transcribe it." -- Dan Chiasson - The New Yorker
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The Nick of Time...contains some of the finest writing of her distinguished career. [T]emporality, always an underlying concern of her work, moves unmistakably to the fore." -- Ryan Ruby - Poetry Foundation
"In her first new collection in a decade, Waldrop astonishes with poems that explore uncertainty and grief, and reckon with time, language, and memory….These intellectual poems are suffused with intimacy, as Waldrop invites the reader to accompany her on a contemplative trek through the mysteries of the universe. It’s a trip well worth taking." -- Publishers Weekly, (starred review)
