So Surprisingly Light the Small Suitcase of Certainty: poems

In her new collection, Marg Walker celebrates the pleasures of daily life and passing impressions, giving new meaning to the idea that living can be a lyrical enterprise. Many of the poems describe interactions with friends and family members, snatches of dialogue, and interrogative soliloquies, sometimes whimsical, occasionally fantastical, but usually poignant and deadly serious at heart. Walker engages loved ones from her past in dreamlike conversation and gently probes the mysteries that lie at the heart of living. A series of poems titled “I thought at the time” offers a fragmentary look at her complex relationship with her mother, which has taken on new contours in retrospect. A poem set in Colorado with acute outdoor observations brings us up short with the line, “I like not knowing. Just looking.” She considers love, again and again, as if it were a liquid to be drunk before it slips through your hands. Echoes of Coleridge, Milosz, Lucille Clifton, and other poets provide the shape and impetus for spiritual reflections. It’s a vision of the world rich in color and emotion and an autobiography in fragments.
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Author/Artist:Walker, Marg
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