Naming a Dying Thing

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Like humid Ohio summers often wistful and lovely yet undeniably heavy </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Naming a Dying Thing</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> by Vic Nogay is a sticky collection. At times a confrontation at others an abdication the poems within this offering reckon with the roles of women and mothers in a society that demands they be somehow everything and nothing all at once. </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Naming a Dying Thing</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> contemplates and subverts success and failure in love and in life holding both up to a hostile American reality. There are no answers here.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Vic Nogay is a Pushcart Prize and Best Microfiction nominated writer from Ohio. She is the author of the micropoetry chapbook </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>under fire under water</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> (tiny wren 2022) and is the microeditor of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Identity Theory.</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> With </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Naming a Dying Thing</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> Nogay avows the labor of motherhood and loss bears the weight of a changing world and unspools the taut line of memory leaving the frayed edges to rest out in the sun.</span></p>