Friesen, Patrick: Reckoning

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Anvil Press, paperbackPublication Date: May 31, 2023Publisher Marketing: RECKONING is one long poem in search of itself, its own meaning. A synecdoche of verse, segments calling an d responding to each other, like jazz musicians riffing back and forth in a late-night smokey speakeasy. Snippets of conversation make it through the air, across the space that seems vast even in its closeness. We are big, we are small, there is eternity in a birdcall. This is end times, yet beginnings surround us. They are there in memory, in grief, in happiness, and in song. Here is a master poet taking stock in later years. Adrift and grounded, lost in memories that are alive in the present and also lost to history, the artist Show more