Asking

<p><em>Asking</em> is what our entire country is doing-asking how to bear up under the loss of so many these absences of our dearly beloveds. These poems answer by more than memory-by joining the beloved to the present in a way that makes asking itself an answer. An exceptional mind is at work here lyrically and with suppositional insistence making a framework in poetry to approach and reapproach the death and the love-its successes and daily quandaries its deep companioning-this is what really makes this book sing.</p><p>-Tess Gallagher author of <em>Is Is Not</em></p><p><br></p><p>What can you do with grief? How can you fill a loss so deep it takes your breath? These poems make of grief a companion a teacher a voice. The emptiness the beloved left behind here fills with necessary beauties and essential consolations. In poem after poem the world testifies for the lost offers scant remedies-just enough. And oh yes I must leave a copy of this book for my own dear ones after. It will provide them.</p><p>-Kim Stafford author of <em>Singer Come from Afar</em></p>