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Narrow Cradle
Year
2020
Language
ENGLISH
Publication Information
Breakwater Books Ltd
Summary
In Narrow Cradle, Wade Kearley explores the midlife encounter with mortality and the ways we strive to resist, deny, cheat, and even bargain with it. Grounded in both traditional and modern poetic forms, these poems find in the transience of life a new kind of freedom, a rebirth independent of personal circumstance. In crisp, direct, and vivid language-swerving between sonnet, villanelle, and sestina-Kearley offers a compelling collection by turns vicious, lost, ragged, and regal.