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Synopsis
Writing poetry, according to Margaret Atwood, is like dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to make crystals, not solving a problem but alchemizing “a cluster of words” into visible shape. The poetry in this collection performs that transformation: Rather than resolving loss, Martha Fox holds grief and absence and exploding boulders under the light, turning them this way and that, up close and at a distance.
Her work does not shy away from difficulty. We linger in the unbearable just long enough to imagine that it can be borne. Into the diffuse grief of watching a familiar world become unfamiliar, Fox weaves moments warmed by moss and orange zest and Flower-moon petals.
The poet knows when to reach and when to pull back. A line may rise into lyricism before landing, without warning, in the quotidian: a sticking kitchen drawer, lost sunglasses, bunions. That collision is the point. Beauty and plainness are not opposites. Resilience is not triumph. Love is where everything begins and ends.
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About the Author
Martha Fox lives in Rockport, Massachusetts. Her previous chapbook Tides/The Land Sighted with Thomas Lux was published by Pym-Randall Press (1971). Pym-Randall also published her first full-length book, If the River's this High all Summer (1972). Grayson Books published her second book, This Arc of Assurances (2022). Her poems have appeared in numerous literary journals and online.
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