It’s Available! Necessary Turns: Poems by Liz Abrams-Morley
What Advance Readers Have to Say About Necessary Turns
“Never maudlin, this fully realized book shows us a way through the agony of loss all humans must experience—and, if we’re lucky, that journey will take us through the beauty of the natural world toward acceptance. But first, like this talented poet, we must see with new eyes beauty around us.” —Jill Breckenridge, author The Gravity of Flesh
“The truism that we are supposed to ‘write what we know’ has always seemed to me a more than slightly frightening injunction. And the sure, steady, deeply-felt, and accomplished poems of Liz Abrams-Morley remind us of why this is the case. Again and again in these poems, the fragility and transience of the domestic is revealed; the rituals of dailiness are always brave but ultimately futile attempts to cope with mortality, aging, and the manifold means with which this world will level us. They are the poems of a writer of a certain age, one who has come to something akin to wisdom [...] through a firm devotion to craft, through a knack for devising quotidian but riveting metaphors, and thanks to plenty of heart.“ —David Wojahn, author of Interrogation Palace
“In vibrant, moving, expansive poems, [Liz] shows us nature confined: bugs in jars, topiary plants in lawns, people in families. [...] This is a poetry of fervent image, of wisdom.”—Elaine Terranova, author of Not To: New and Selected Poems
“You must carry this book and open it when you need music for your soul.”—Nancy Slonim Aronie, author of Writing from the Heart
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