Broken Metronome by Connie Post

Broken Metronome

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Broken Metronome

Glass Lyre Press

Broken Metronome

by Connie Post

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 What happens to the rhythms of life when the body fails us? In Broken Metronome Connie Post composes using the erratic and irreducible language of loss. In this elegy to her brother's death by Parkinson's, she engages the medical language she must maneuver as she works through her brother's condition: "Hypokinesia/ slow or diminished movement/ I try to move slowly with you/ like when we practiced for the/ seventh-grade dance." These poems are written in the space between direct care and memory. Post's poems talk to us, confide in us, even confess in us when the most that can be asked is "less suffering." She offers us a contemplative nuanced ear tuned to the lyric turn. This is a powerful portrait of the love of a sister for a brother. A slim chapbook but a significant book in the genre of going on.-Sean Thomas Dougherty, author of The Dead are Everywhere Telling Us Things
Book Details
Publisher:
Glass Lyre Press
ISBN:
9781941783962
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
50
Authors:
Connie Post
Published Date:
2023-05-01
Language:
English
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About Connie Post

Connie Post became the first Poet Laureate of Livermore, California. She was sworn in at a city council meeting in May 2005 and built two reading series during her term. Her debut full-length collection, Floodwater, came from Glass Lyre Press in 2014, followed by Prime Meridian in 2020 and the chapbook Broken Metronome in 2023; Between Twilight appeared the same year from New York Quarterly Books. Two earlier chapbooks, Trip Wires and And When the Sun Drops, came from Finishing Line Press, the second taking the Aurorean's 2012 Editor's Choice award. She has also won the Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize and the Caesura Award, and was shortlisted five times for the Comstock Review's Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award.

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