Muscle Memories of Love and Disaster by Tim Mayo

Muscle Memories of Love and Disaster

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Muscle Memories of Love and Disaster

Bainbridge Island Press

Muscle Memories of Love and Disaster

by Tim Mayo

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Muscle Memories of Love and Disaster explores the arc of a life shaped by loss and renewed by love. The poems intertwine to explore grief from the loss of loved ones (a lover, a daughter and close friends), early memories of growing up in an immigrant foster home, later memories of working in a mental hospital, the poet's own recovery from addiction, the emotional and spiritual impact of a near death and life-changing accident with its lasting, crippling effects, and an acceptance of a life nearing its own chronological end. Although there is a darkness in these poems, they belie the empathy and subtle humor in the poems and the joy of finding love in later life after so much loss.
Book Details
Publisher:
Bainbridge Island Press
ISBN:
9781961451155
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
116
Authors:
Tim Mayo
Published Date:
2026-03-31
Language:
English
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Death, Grief, Loss

About Tim Mayo

Tim Mayo earned an ALB cum laude at Harvard and an MFA at the Bennington Writing Seminars. He has worked at the Brattleboro Retreat in the Vermont town where he lives. The Kingdom of Possibilities came from Mayapple Press in 2009, Thesaurus of Separation from Phoenicia Publishing in 2016, the chapbook Notes to the Mental Hospital Timekeeper from Kelsay Books in 2019, and Muscle Memories of Love and Disaster from Bainbridge Island Press in 2026; an earlier chapbook, The Loneliness of Dogs, appeared from Pudding House Publications in 2008. Notes to the Mental Hospital Timekeeper took an honorable mention in the 2020 Eric Hoffer Award, and his poems have drawn repeated Pushcart nominations.

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