What Nothing

By Anna Meister

Book Overview

"A reckoning with the past, a bargain with memory, and a prayer for forgetting, What Nothing gives voice to someone for whom sadness is more than a feeling; its a place of residence, familiar as a home and strange as a sudden storm. In her debut poetry collection, Anna Meister asks: how do you learn to live in a place like this? For someone who craves oblivion like salt, who knows what nothing is, staying alive is a lifetime of work. She discovers power in recognizing the dark, though naming it doesnt make it any brighter but provides a way of seeing the shadows and giving them shape. With a persistent tenderness, Meister finds the somethings that lay a path and the someones who will guide the way, as they, queerly [weave] light into all my dark. This is what we owe to one another: a hand in the darkness, a promise to be there on the other side."--back cover.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1951979117
• ISBN13: 9781951979119
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Sundress Publications
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.0" x 8.0"