The Nightlife

by Elise Paschen

The first poem in this collection juxtaposes a house being closed up with a tragedy at a beach. In the penultimate, Paschen writes “I entered the room / of this life to discover / time had come to move.” In between are infidelities and funerals, umbrellas hurtled by the wind, landmines hidden in sand, and tightly wound rhymes that hint of a spirit coiled, waiting in the dark. Best read at night.

Publisher
Red Hen Press
Year
2017
Collection
Poetry
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Selected essays

Writing essays & notes

  1. The open universe

    On The Language of the Night and The Real World of Technology

  2. Umyazu

    Reading is the art of attention.

Reading books

  1. Was

    by Geoff Ryman

  2. Kraken

    by China Miéville

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