Plastic Life

<p>Giles L. Turnbull's <em>Plastic Life</em> is a tightly woven narrative-in-verse that examines disposability in all its forms-of relationships rituals memory and meaning. Structured as a quiet unraveling the sequence follows an unnamed protagonist through the fallout of a failed marriage shadowed by modern life's throwaway culture and his own faltering attempts at connection. In spare clear-eyed poems that drift from commuter trains to grief-soaked recollections Turnbull sketches a world of plastic cutlery takeout coffee and unspoken regrets. The result is an elegy for the irretrievable rendered in fragments both tender and unsparing.</p>