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paper \u2022 110 pages \u2022 16.95
\nISBN-13: 978-1-945588-69-3
\nPub Date: February 15, 2021<\/p>\n
Add to Cart<\/a><\/p>\n [\/column] \u201cWhat Happens is Neither\/ the end nor the beginning. \/Yet we\u2019re wired to look for signs,\u201d offers the speaker of Angela Narciso Torres\u2019 latest collection, which approaches motherhood, aging, and mourning through a series of careful meditations. In music, mantra, and prayer, Torres explores the spaces in and around grief\u2014in varying proximity to it and from different vantage points. She writes both structurally formal poems that enfold the emotionality of loss and free verse that loosens the latch on memory and lets us into the sensory worlds of the speaker\u2019s childhood and present. In poems set in two countries and homes, Torres considers what it means to leave a mark, vanish, and stay in one place. In a profound act of recollection and preservation, Torres shows us how to release part of ourselves but remain whole.<\/p>\n “Disappearing Act”<\/strong><\/p>\n Mother chose the dress\u2014mint-green with puffed sleeves. White starched collar, electric-pleat skirt, lace socks that chafed my ankles. At the party, she made me kiss everyone: aunts reeking of Joy<\/em> by Jean Patou, sway-backed uncles cradling beers, my grandmother smoking clove cigarettes between puffs of her inhaler. Someone was laughing loudly. Someone played a ukulele. From a far table, the rumble of mah-jongg tiles being shuffled by a quorum of matrons, their lacquered nails clicking, wreathed in cigarette smoke. Cousins wrestled on the scorched lawn. A small place behind my ribs felt tender, making it hard to breathe. I wanted most of all to lie in the pink shell of my room, a book within reach. Someone passed around colorful sandwiches in the shape of card suits: diamonds, spades, clubs. Someone carried a tray of fizzy drinks, handing them to the grownups. I imagined sneaking a sip and getting smaller and smaller like Alice, then crawling into Mother\u2019s conch evening bag, the clasp closing overhead with a satisfied click. Mother whispered a greeting to a woman in a floral print kaftan. I vanished into their murmurs and shadows, a cloud of camphor and carnations. [column col=”1\/4″] paper \u2022 110 pages \u2022 16.95 ISBN-13: 978-1-945588-69-3 Pub Date: February 15, 2021 Add to Cart [\/column] [column col=”3\/4″] What Happens Is Neither Angela Narciso Torres Finalist for the 2021 Best Book Award in Poetry Reviewed in Publishers Weekly Featured in Ms. Featured in WBUR \u201cWhat Happens is Neither\/ the end nor the beginning. \/Yet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15194","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15194"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20521,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15194\/revisions\/20521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n[column col=”3\/4″]<\/p>\nWhat Happens Is Neither<\/em><\/h1>\n
Angela Narciso Torres<\/h2>\n
Finalist for the 2021 Best Book Award in Poetry<\/a><\/h5>\n
Reviewed in Publishers Weekly<\/a> <\/em><\/h5>\n
Featured in M<\/em>s<\/em><\/a>. <\/em><\/a><\/h5>\n
Featured in WBUR<\/a><\/h5>\n
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