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A Memory of the Future: Poems

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By (author): Elizabeth Spires

In A Memory of the Future, critically acclaimed poet Elizabeth Spires reflects on selfhood and the search for a core identity. Inspired by the tradition of poetic interest in Zen, Spires explores the noisy space of the mind, interrogating the necessary divide between the social persona that navigates the world and the artists secret self. With vivid, careful attention to the minute details of everyday moments, A Memory of the Future observes, questions and meditates on the ordinary, attempting to make sense of the boundaries of existence.

As the poems move from Zen reflections outward into the identifiable worlds of Manhattan, Maine and Marylands Eastern shore, houses, both real and imagined, become metaphorical extensions of the self and psyche. These poems ask the unanswerable questions that become more pressing in the second half of life. How are we changed by the passage of time? How does memory define and shape us? As Spires reminds us, any memory of the future will become, paradoxically, a memory of the past and of forgetting.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 107g
  • Dimensions: 155 x 211mm
  • Publication Date: 24 Jul 2020
  • Publisher: WW Norton & Co
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780393358292

About Elizabeth Spires

Elizabeth Spires is the author of seven poetry collections including Worldling and The Wave-Maker. Her poetry has appeared in the Atlantic and The New Yorker among other publications. A professor at Goucher College she lives in Baltimore Maryland.

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