How to Love the Empty Air

New York Times bestselling nonfiction writer and poet Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz's How to Love the Empty Air...
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Author: Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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How to Love the Empty Air by O'Keefe Aptowicz, Cristin

How to Love the Empty Air

$42.28

How to Love the Empty Air

$42.28
Author: Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
Format: Paperback
Language: English
New York Times bestselling nonfiction writer and poet Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz's How to Love the Empty Air reaches new heights in her revelatory seventh collection of poetry.

Grief is one of the most impossible things to put words to. In How to Love the Empty Air Christin O'Keefe Aptowicz does the impossible. With humor and honesty, she offers comfort and even the possibility of healing...--Sarah Kay, author of No Matter the Wreckage

Continuing in her tradition of engaging autobiographical work, How to Love the Empty Air explores what happens when the impossible becomes real―for better and for worse. Aptowicz's journey to find happiness and home in her ever-shifting world sees her struggling in cities throughout America. When her luck changes―in love and in life―she can't help but "tell the sun / tell the fields / tell the huge Texas sky.... / tell myself again and again until I believe it." However, the upward trajectory of this new life is rocked by the sudden death of the poet's mother.

In the year that follows, Aptowicz battles the silencing power of grief with intimate poems burnished by loss and a hard-won humor, capturing the dance that all newly grieving must do between everyday living and the desire "to elope with this grief, / who is not your enemy, / this grief who maybe now is your best friend. / This grief, who is your husband, / the thing you curl into every night, / falling asleep in its arms..." As in her award-winning The Year of No Mistakes, Aptowicz counts her losses and her blessings, knowing how despite it all, life "ripples boundless, like electricity, like joy / like... laughter, irresistible and bright, / an impossible thing to contain."

Author: Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
Publisher: Write Bloody Publishing
Published: 03/20/2018
Pages: 88
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781938912801

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