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To Keep Time

Joseph Massey's third collection, To Keep Time, limns the microclimate of coastal Humboldt County, California. These poems live where modern life — radio static, a space heater, traffic — collides with the so-called natural world. With spare, vivid imagery, Massey builds brilliantly on concerns familiar to readers of his earlier works. Here "The near-silence / rattles me // to attention;" here the vagaries of language itself — what's been left out as much as what's been written in — penetrate the heart of these stealthy, aching poems. To Keep Time stops the world's chatter for a moment and listens to its loneliness and longing, and hears the grace in the relentlessness of days.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 92
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781890650971
  • Genres
  • poetry
  • Release date
  • 2014