Böcker av Emily Van Kley

Written in the years following the sudden death of a cherished friend, Arrhythmia traces the shock doctrine of grief as it electrifies the lives of those left behind. Alliances shift. Loss multiplies. Poems call out from the body, wrestling the twin impossibilities of memory and meaning in language that is by turns starkly simple and twistingly inventive. A tribute to queer friendship, these poems weave chronic grief (a damaged planet, social injustice) with the stab of a loved one's sudden absence-of what happens to the vibrant particulars of a life when it ends.

Inthis lyrical and unflinching debut, a landscape of staggering beauty abutsindustrial towns in the throes of economic decay. Emily Van Kley exploresnotions of home, estrangement, isolation, and longing against a backdrop ofcrystalline winters, Lake Superior's mythic tempers, and forests as vast asthey are close.