Today's poem is "Body Parts"
from A House, Undone
T. Clear
is a co-founder of Floating Bridge Press, her poetry has appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including Poetry Northwest, Iron Horse Literary Review, Sheila-na-Gig, The Moth, Crannog, Terrain.org and Take a Stand: Art Against Hate. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Award and Independent Best American Poetry Award. Her book, A House, Undone, is the 2021 winner of the Sally Albiso Award from MoonPath Press. She is an Associate Editor at Bracken Magazine.
Books by T. Clear:
Other poems on the web by T. Clear:
"Abscission"
from 28 Moons of August
"May I Help You?"
"Rogue"
Two poems
"Quarantine Happy Hour: The Death Count"
"Amplified Love"
T. Clear's Website.
About A House, Undone:
"In T. Clear's exquisite debut collection, A House, Undone, we consider what home is. From 'a house of scant beginnings...raveling sweaters/and unpainted stairwells' to the bodies we inhabit to 'roaming the frozen fields...small enough to enter a honeyed hive, ' these striking and precise poems lead us through the hallways of the temporary. Whether the 'wife/wanted out of the couplet' or beneath a 'sky scrubbed-clean of mudsock grey,'
Clear is a master of the image, the narrative arc, and the details of a story. Well-crafted, engaging, and constructed with meticulous care, A House, Undone becomes the beautiful architecture for poetry, where we live in a house of words on 'a bed littered with leaves, /starlight for a roof.'"
"Not only is T. Clear's A House, Undone the most downright enjoyable book of poetry I've read in a good while, it's also got me seriously stirred about house and home. These poems turn personal loss and uprootedness into a highly contagious empathy for those whose dwellings we couldn't call houses. This poet has me laughing out loud then achingly sad and outraged by quick turns through her pages. The book is so right for this American moment, but the truth is, it's right for all history, everywhere."
Kelli Russell Agodon
Jed Myers
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