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Synopsis
Drawn to earth and stone, Faye George’s poems of memory are far from ethereal, but made of vivid, lived experience. In strong, almost Delphic lyrics, George’s poetic echoes the tradition while at the same time amplifying present-tense moments of connection and feeling. I’m grateful for these poems of delight and instruction, reminding us that memory leads to discovery and often renewal, as difficult as that may be: “Spring, you come to my door / like a peddler, / a scar on your face / the mud of the road / on your shoe / expecting my welcome.”
— Catherine Anderson
In Faye George’s The Ragged Hold of Memory, remembering is both a tether and a muscle in the face of mortality. George writes “as if time with no horizon / had circled back,” and she takes inventory of her close surroundings—from furniture to frogs—and her travels—from Paris to Isles of Shoals. She gathers the familial, natural, and inanimate, and with her poet’s “hungry eye,” and musical ear, George sidesteps “the great beast of regret” so that her poems reveal a calm and vital life force.
—Susan Kan
In her new book The Ragged Hold of Memory, Faye George’s exquisitely crafted poems explore the beauty and terror of memory in all its complexities of solace, pain, and ambivalence. Fully conscious of the seeming impenetrability of the “days that wander west / with the vast indifference of gods / to the patterns we make / in the spinning blizzard of stars,” she responds with courage, intelligence, and skill to create meaning from them –and by so doing brings forth the bountiful harvest of a fully experienced and unflinchingly examined life.
—Phil Tabakow
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The Ragged Hold of Memory
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