Simple Absence Poems & Reflections
Simple Absence Poems & Reflections by Nancy Fitz-Hugh Meneely, published by Antrim House in 2020, is a collection of poetry that explores the complexities of life through the lens of loss and emotion. With 232 pages, this edition presents a range of poems that honor various public and private experiences, capturing the essence of both form and feeling. The work aims to convey a sense of life’s fullness, showcasing the interplay between trammeled and untrammeled emotions.
Readers will find a richly textured experience within these poems, which feature various structures and a depth that invites reflection. Meneely’s powers of description bring to life a diverse array of subjects, from particular objects to profound observations and emotions. The collection also includes a few prose pieces, enhancing the overall exploration of its themes. This edition, written in English, offers an engaging journey through the intricacies of human experience, making it a noteworthy addition to the realm of American poetry.
Official synopsis Publisher
One of poetry’s dreams is amplitude, the book of poems that gives a sense of life’s fullness, even as it depicts the losses. Nancy Meneely’s Simple Absence speaks eloquently to that dream, the range of poems honoring and testifying to a host of situations–public and private. Each poem deftly enacts the drama of trammeled and untrammeled emotion. Though the poems embody essences of form and feeling, lines and stanzas moving crisply down the pages, there is nothing minimal here. The breadth and depth are both inspiring.
There’s nothing absent in these richly-textured, various-structured, deeply-felt and capacious poems (plus a few prose pieces). Great pleasure is to be garnered from Meneely’s powers of description; precise, wholly new, better than anyone’s I know. Wonder is here, as well, in the particular objects, observations, ideas and emotions this poet chooses to treat as subjects: idiosyncratic in the best sense. From first thought to last, the reader’s ride is electric and ultimately bedazzling.
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