The Backwards Year

by Joe Weil

Poetry. THE BACKWARDS YEAR collects poems written between June 2018 back to June 2017, more or less, in reverse order and juxtaposes the poet's childhood with love poems for his own neural atypical children, Clare and Gabriel. The book returns to childhood in some of its rhyming poems, but also by exploring the dark spaces where childhood is a kind of fevered dream that keeps informing and shaping the present. This is the most reflective and meditative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1630450669
• ISBN13: 9781630450663
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: NYQ Books
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"