{"id":11396,"date":"2018-05-31T12:26:10","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T16:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=11396"},"modified":"2022-10-27T11:55:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T15:55:27","slug":"forgive-body-failure-blas-falconer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/forgive-body-failure-blas-falconer\/","title":{"rendered":"Forgive the Body This Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Forgive the Body This Failure<\/em><\/h1>\n

Blas Falconer<\/h2>\n

Blas Falconer’s poem “A man and a woman touched” from Forgive the Body This Failure<\/em> was featured in The New York Times Magazine. <\/a><\/h5>\n
On Washington Independent Review of Books’ September 2018 Best Books List.<\/h5>\n

A collection of poems that faces personal losses to explore the human sense of impermanence and to cherish what we must relinquish.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Engaging the past and the present, these poems attempt to reconcile loss\u00a0and longing while also seeking to understand our own impermanence. Written in a plain-spoken voice, they are meditative, elegiac and tender.<\/p>\n

“Heaven” from Forgive the Body This Failure<\/em><\/p>\n

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How will \nI get\n\nthere? How\nwill I ever know how\n\nto get\nthere,<\/em> my son\n\nasks, sobbing\nsuddenly, months\n\nafter, if\nyou don't let\n\nme see\nthem die.\n\n<\/em>[\/column]<\/pre>\n
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