Addresses Home by A.E. Clark
$14.49
In nautical navigation, dead reckoning is the process of calculating one’s current position using a previously determined position or fix. A.E. Clark’s collection, a series of epistles and addresses, offers a lyrical accounting for landscape, language, and litany of things that fill distances between the speaker and addressee: “(Dear Someone: /Pronouns have always been worse.) / Because for you, Alphabet, as for any good Roman, there is no difference / between conquering and yielding.” In ADDRESSES HOME, the poet astutely navigates uncertainty through nomenclature— naming doubt and in doing so, finding a fix.
–Nicole Tong (Author of MY MINE)
Rating: ***** [5 of 5 Stars!]
In ADDRESSES HOME, A.E. Clark locates literary origin via the intimate address of the epistolary embrace. Compelled by a desire to praise the things – the nouns, sounds, fields of perception – that make up a daily life, these poignant poems equally consider what Wallace Stevens called “the nothing that is.” Airplanes fly through, pronouns slip their noose, it’s the desert, all right, and a place you call home when you have to. Yet and still, what is left is homage. A.E.Clark pays her tribute forward, all the way into gratitude.
–Claudia Keelan (Author of UTOPIC, DEVOTION FIELD, and MISSING HER)
Rating: ***** [5 of 5 Stars!]
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Addresses Home
by A.E. Clark
paper, $14.49
A.E. Clark received her BA from Beloit College and her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in various journals, including New American Writing, Colorado Review, Court Green, Witness, Interim, Mid-American Review, Menacing Hedge, Sugared Water, and Rust + Moth. Her chapbook, ADDRESSES HOME, was released in 2015 (Finishing Line Press). She currently lives in Las Vegas, where her day job is antiquarian bookseller.
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