Low: Poems
Pages: 112
|Published: 7 Nov 2023
Description
Low explores the jaggedness of memory and what is salvageable when the past is broken by loss, violence, and trauma.
Despite its existential reverberations, Low is a celebration of desire in all its forms―the desire for home, the desire to be held, the desire for people to be kind to one another, the desire to understand where we are from and what we can do to make the best of that. But how do we create a home, these poems ask, in a world of satellites and atom bombs and algorithms, those things designed to dehumanize and reduce us? To get low is to reconnect with the earth, to engage with the emotional state of the planet, to remember that “the cure all along grows beside us. ” Flynn’s collection is a prismatic, even prophetic, experience, with new complexity and ardor at every turn.
Despite its existential reverberations, Low is a celebration of desire in all its forms―the desire for home, the desire to be held, the desire for people to be kind to one another, the desire to understand where we are from and what we can do to make the best of that. But how do we create a home, these poems ask, in a world of satellites and atom bombs and algorithms, those things designed to dehumanize and reduce us? To get low is to reconnect with the earth, to engage with the emotional state of the planet, to remember that “the cure all along grows beside us. ” Flynn’s collection is a prismatic, even prophetic, experience, with new complexity and ardor at every turn.
