BOOKS - If You Have to Go
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984832
984832
If You Have to Go
Author: Katie Ford
Year: 2018
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 604 KB
Language: English
Year: 2018
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 604 KB
Language: English
The transformative new book from one of the most important American poets at work today Dunya MikhailI am content because before me looms the hope of loveI do not have it I do not yet have itIt is a bird strong enough to lead me by the rope it bitesunless I pull it is strong enough for meI do worry the end of my days might comeand I will not yet have it But even then I will be braveupon my deathbed and why shouldnt I beI held things here and I felt themFrom Psalm 40The poems in Katie Fords fourth collection implore their audiencethe divine and the humanfor attention for revelation and perhaps above all for companionship The extraordinary sequence at the heart of this book taps into the radical power of the sonnet form bending it into a kind of metaphysical and psychological outcry Beginning in the cramped space of selfhoodin the bedroom cluttered with doubts and in the throes of marital lossthese poems edge toward the clarity of what I can know and admit to knowing In song and in silence Ford inhabits the rooms of anguish and redemption with scouring exactness This is poetry that can break open it can break your life it will break you until you remain If You Have to Go is Fords most luminous and moving collection
