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World of Dew

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How do we make sense of our suffering? World of Dew grapples with this question by embracing impermanence, the death of a loved one, the transmutation of an old belief, the adoption of a new culture. Lindsay Stuart Hill navigates the space "where 'lost' still differs from 'gone'" and the dream of reversal or undoing remains: "Turn your back to a mirror, hold up a mirror: / an endless passage opens behind you." Moving from the tide pools of Maine to the streets of Hyderabad, Hill entwines grief and awe, beauty and violence, truth and delusion. These poems form a scrapbook of missing girls, clothes drying on a clothesline, lingering romances. This is the world of dew-a gorgeous and fragile cosmos where we know nothing lasts, and yet we remain-questioning, dreaming, hoping. This precise, image-driven debut reminds us that only when we let go of who we once were can we become the person we are meant to be.
One Paris Penitence The Finches Collecting Shells The BahA'I School Reversal Kit It's January Still After You Said No Morning in Station North Page from a Woodland Journal, with Sketches of Yellow Wildflowers At a Farm in Silverton Autumn Scrapbook Two Poem Ending with a Bollywood Song Pastoral Monsoon Season, 2008 Five Photographs: My Host Brother, Me Bracelet Ajar Night Ride Through Hi-Tec City "When you get here, turn the light around to shine back." Three The Pain Body Nanquan Kills a Cat The Gardener's Sutra Overlapping Elegies To The Line I Cut The Mountain and the Teaspoon The Widow and the Pinecone Funeral for a Water Child "You have only one life, and that life is not yours alone." Love Poem with Lemon and Radishes Acknowledgments Notes
"Hill's poems ring with a lyrical clarity that invites us to embrace the mysteries of everyday life. These are poems to live in and to get lost in, and, if you are patient and lucky, to never quite find your way out of. Gentle, honest, and unstintingly truthful, this is a beautiful and life-affirming book." - Ronald Wallace
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