by Laura McKee
University of Arkansas Press, 2016
Paper: 978-1-55728-696-3 | eISBN: 978-1-61075-582-5
Library of Congress Classification PS3613.C5524A6 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6

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Finalist, 2016 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, edited by Billy Collins

The poems in See You Soon explore the limits of metaphor and language as their voices speak from the beauty and strangeness of daily experience, testing how we make sense of ourselves to ourselves and to one another. There is love in these poems, there is failure and absurdity. The characters, in their various situations and guises, find themselves outside of time, space, and identity—at sunset, in an airport, outside a hookah lounge, as a birthday party clown, after a flood. Its message is the invitation of the title. See You Soon is a statement of the complexity of our mutual direction in time, of camaraderie along the way.


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