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The Last Things I'll Remember - Softcover

Schalet, Randi

 
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Synopsis

In The Last Things I'll Remember, Randi Schalet writes from inside the long aftermath of her son's death. These poems return to small, precise moments-a visit, something said or not said-and stay there, letting their weight accumulate.There is no resolution here. Addiction is present but not explained; grief is not softened or shaped into meaning. Schalet's language is spare and exact. What emerges is a record of attention-a mother looking closely at what happened, and at what cannot be changed. In The Last Things I'll Remember, Randi Schalet writes from inside the long aftermath of her son's death. These poems return to small, precise moments-a visit, something said or not said-and stay there, letting their weight accumulate. There is no resolution here. The poems move through what remains: the habits of hope, the limits of what a parent can do, the ways a life narrows and continues. Addiction is present but not explained; grief is not softened or shaped into meaning. Schalet's language is spare and exact. What emerges is a record of attention-a mother looking closely at what happened, and at what cannot be changed.

 

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About the Author

Randi Schalet is a retired psychologist and writer based in Berkeley, California. Her work examines addiction, motherhood, regret, and the long afterlife of grief. Her essays and poems have appeared in numerous literary journals. This is her debut poetry collection.

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