Notes on Endings [available for pre-order]
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This is a beautiful book, both as a series of individual poems and as a single artistic whole—an elegy for someone who died too young, the poet’s sister. A keenly observed natural world, including the remembered pathways of childhood and youth, keeps the frank sadness of these poems from despair. Notes on Endings is more than notes—Clare Banks shapes every poem by playing upon a few well-chosen images. And she is especially gifted at finding the unexpected but apt final lines for her poems. Time and again they conclude movingly with a musical cadence, a rightness that is never mere neatness, and that leaves plenty of room for wonder.—Mary Jo Salter
