$14.99
Songs After Memory Fractures is a conjunction of yowls and whispers that recognizes life as the longest, truest measure of time—confronting the real terror of loss and the even greater surprise of it. Each page operates with a reluctance to denounce the confusion of longing for memory, while avoiding exaggerated sentimentality, and delivering “history no one knew would be lost.” This powerful work unveils a necessity to address our origins if we are ever to reconcile our mangled vitality.
–Chance Castro
The speaker in Songs After Memory Fractures invokes her scattered memories among “wet footprints” that vanish, allowing us to witness an expansive and fierce imagination at work, poem after poem.
–Juan Delgado
Songs After Memory Fractures is itself a song with chase of loss as chorus, with disintegrating moments of beauty as backbeat, and the echoing pain drives the volume. As we run down empty streets of recollection, Songs After Memory Fractures is the one unbroken street light, dripping insight into the journey of love as place, of time as a fading photograph, of death as “a river burning” on repeat.
–Bolin Jue
Songs After Memory Fractures
by Allyson Jeffredo
$14.99, paper
Allyson Jeffredo has work published in Badlands, Tin Cannon, and Zocalo Public Square. She is a fellow of The Loft Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship which allows her to teach creative writing and the arts to Elementary School children of the Inland Empire. When she’s not writing, one might find her out in the woods playing airsoft.
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