{"id":3937,"date":"2013-09-04T21:40:54","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T21:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=3937"},"modified":"2022-11-03T13:21:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T17:21:56","slug":"what-the-right-hand-knows","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/what-the-right-hand-knows\/","title":{"rendered":"What The Right Hand Knows"},"content":{"rendered":"

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paper \u2022 88 pages \u2022 15.95
\nISBN-13:\u00a0978-1-884800-95-5<\/p>\n

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What The Right Hand Knows<\/em><\/h1>\n

Tom Healy<\/h2>\n

The title of Healy\u2019s sensual, urgent debut collection, What the Right Hand Knows<\/em> contains an invisible reference to the left<\/em> hand \u2014the other side of the pair\u2014what does it know? What does it not know? Immediately we are thrust into a teetering, asymmetric world where a speaker, \u201cdeaf in one ear,\u201d ponders that \u201cthe Moon\u2019s dark side \/ has no sound.\u201d Elsewhere, another pair, a mother and child finally \u201ctake the journey they\u2019d talked about\u201d but it is \u201ca Sunday drive on Tuesday,\u201d a near-miss \u201conly tracing circumferences.\u201d Healy\u2019s poems concern themselves with these and other disappointments as well with the tendernesses of important relationships: what it is that occurs between lovers, parents and children, between past and present, between mind and body.<\/p>\n

This is a book of \u201csalt and work,\u201d of survival: surviving ourselves, our illnesses, our language. As a mode of survival, Healy\u2019s poised lines acknowledge and celebrate the \u201cperfect hurt\u201d of a world which repeatedly requires \u201can act of forbearance,\u201d a chance \u201cwe wed \/ and spend life \/ thwarting \/ one another?\u201d Since we cannot avoid \u201cthe threads \/ of this web \/ waiting\u201d we must persevere, and persevere through language. Emerson, losing his memory, appears in one poem to call out \u201cI need [\u2026] what strangers take away,\u201d unable to name \u201cumbrella\u201d and yet, in that forgetting, naming something equally essential for understanding the world. Within this intelligent, lively debut, it is ultimately words that allow us our purchase on the world. Healy\u2019s poems combine the controlled, charged style of C.P. Cavafy with the cosmopolitan verve of Frank O\u2019Hara in a book that is as distinctive for its studied nonchalance as for its unabashed tenderness.<\/p>\n

“The View From Here,” from\u00a0What the Right Hand Knows<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Giotto drew a perfect circle
\nwith one quick<\/div>\n
turn of coal.<\/p>\n

The shape
\nof astonishment,
\nforever\u2019s empty frame,<\/p>\n

a coin on the tongue,
\nhow our eyes never are.
\nBut relax, love,<\/p>\n

into this world we\u2019re finding
\nand the perfect hurt
\nof how it turns.<\/p>\n

About the Author<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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