The Book of Echoes

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>At once deeply personal and infused with a profound respect for its literary predecessors </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Book of Echoes</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> resonates with the speaker's journey through Tourette's syndrome. This exploration of motor tics echolalia and phantom speech gradually unfolds into a joyous and surreal celebration of Jack Spicer's insight that Poems should echo and re-echo against each other. They should create resonances. They cannot live alone any more than we can. Welch's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Book of Echoes</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> delights in illuminating the intimate spaces of connection that poetry provides.</span></p>