Motion Photos by Nina Bannett

Motion Photos by Nina Bannett

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Nina Bannett’s Motion Photos tracks the journey’s end of a life fascinated by motion and derailed by terminal illness. The spare and angular early poem, “Adaptation,” sets this collection going as if laying down rails for a perpetual “grief train.” In exquisitely crafted, economical poems, a daughter travels with her dying father, recording his “scant options in mean country,” discovering the enduring stasis of love. Like her father’s model trains, Bannett’s poems are “N scale but full size.”

–Kate Falvey, author of The Language of Little Girls; Associate Editor for the Bellevue Literary Review

 

Each of Nina Bannett‘s poems, so economical, reverberates with grief. Here we find Freud’s traveler sitting in the train, describing the changing views through a window. But in Motion Photos, the train isn’t always running. It stops. It breaks down. What is revealed in that stillness, in the tension before movement, is delicate longing, remembrance and profound loss.  
–Rob Ostrom

 

 

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Motion Photos

by Nina Bannett

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979-8-88838-570-8

2024

Motion Photos offers a sparse and haunting examination of physical deterioration and emotional loss.  Using the language of trains, poems explore a father’s psychological landscape in the face of neurological illness and a daughter’s grappling with the inevitable. Economical in scope, poems explore the themes of mobility and stasis in the face of crisis.

Nina Bannett is the author of These Acts of Water (2015) and a chapbook, Lithium Witness (2011). Her poetry has been featured in numerous journals including North American Review, Valley Voices, Bellevue Literary Review and WomenArts Quarterly. She is Professor of English at New York City College of Technology, City University of New York. www.ninabannett.com

 

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