These are powerfully original poems about the sweetness and pain of adulthood and fatherhood by the critically acclaimed poet Dan Chiasson.A childrsquo;s improvised game of ldquo;Wherersquo;s the moon; Therersquo;s the moonrdquo; is the shaping metaphor for this collection; but adult matters of seeking and finding; loss and recovery; anticipation and desirersquo;s uncertain rewards are at its heart. Chiasson makes poignant use of objects and naturersquo;s givens as correlatives for our human struggles: ldquo;Being near me never made anyone a needle;rdquo; he writes in ldquo;Thread;rdquo; and in the poem titled ldquo;Tree;rdquo; ldquo;All day I waited to be blown; / then someone cut me down.rdquo; In the title sequence; a multipart poem about fathers and sons; Chiasson describes the ways the gift for being absent; a poetrsquo;s gift; is passed from father to son; as he watches his own children sink into the enigmatic silences that mimic his ownmdash;silences that he; in turn; connects with his own fatherrsquo;s disappearance from his life. Chiasson is a poet of great grief and love. In this third book; his voice is more commanding than ever; embracing the notion of how smallmdash;yet how rich and significantmdash;are our individual stories in time and space.From the Hardcover edition.
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