How to Love the Empty Air by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz (English) Hardcover Book

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Vulnerable, beautiful and ultimately life-affirming, Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz's work reaches new heights in her revelatory seventh collection of poetry. Continuing in her tradition of engaging autobiographical work, How to Love the Empty Air explores what happens when the impossible becomes realfor better and for worse. Aptowicz's journey to find happiness and home in her ever-shifting world sees her struggling in cities throughout America. When her luck changesin love and in lifeshe can't help but "tell the sun / tell the fields / tell the huge Texas sky.... / tell myself again and again until I believe it." However, the upward trajectory of this new life is rocked by the sudden death of the poet's mother. In the year that follows, Aptowicz battles the silencing power of grief with intimate poems burnished by loss and a hard-won humor, capturing the dance that all newly grieving must do between everyday living and the desire "to elope with this grief, / who is not your enemy, / this grief who maybe now is your best friend. / This grief, who is your husband, / the thing you curl into every night, / falling asleep in its arms..." As in her award-winning The Year of No Mistakes, Aptowicz counts her losses and her blessings, knowing how despite it all, life "ripples boundless, like electricity, like joy / like... laughter, irresistible and bright, / an impossible thing to contain."

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"[O'Keefe] Aptowicz is something of a legend in NYC's slam poetry scene. She is lively, thoughtful, and approachable, looking to engage the audience with her work and deeply committed to the community that art and slam poetry can create."--Jo Reed, NEA"Grief is one of the most impossible things to put words to. In How to Love the Empty Air, Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz does the impossible. With humor and honesty, she offers comfort and even the possibility of healing...--Sarah Kay, author of No Matter the Wreckage"As a reader who understands how a particular relationship with geography can breed longing, How to Love the Empty Air sung to me...This is a book that will tattoo itself on all the places you love to look at most."--Hanif Abdurraqib, author of They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

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Vulnerable, beautiful and ultimately life-affirming, Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz's work reaches new heights in her revelatory seventh collection of poetry. Continuing in her tradition of engaging autobiographical work, How to Love the Empty Air explores what happens when the impossible becomes realfor better and for worse. Aptowicz's journey to find happiness and home in her ever-shifting world sees her struggling in cities throughout America. When her luck changesin love and in lifeshe can't help but "tell the sun / tell the fields / tell the huge Texas sky.... / tell myself again and again until I believe it." However, the upward trajectory of this new life is rocked by the sudden death of the poet's mother. In the year that follows, Aptowicz battles the silencing power of grief with intimate poems burnished by loss and a hard-won humor, capturing the dance that all newly grieving must do between everyday living and the desire "to elope with this grief, / who is not your enemy, / this grief who maybe now is your best friend. / This grief, who is your husband, / the thing you curl into every night, / falling asleep in its arms..." As in her award-winning The Year of No Mistakes, Aptowicz counts her losses and her blessings, knowing how despite it all, life "ripples boundless, like electricity, like joy / like... laughter, irresistible and bright, / an impossible thing to contain."

Review Quote

"[O'Keefe] Aptowicz is something of a legend in NYC's slam poetry scene. She is lively, thoughtful, and approachable, looking to engage the audience with her work and deeply committed to the community that art and slam poetry can create."--Jo Reed, NEA "Grief is one of the most impossible things to put words to. In How to Love the Empty Air, Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz does the impossible. With humor and honesty, she offers comfort and even the possibility of healing...--Sarah Kay, author of No Matter the Wreckage "As a reader who understands how a particular relationship with geography can breed longing, How to Love the Empty Air sung to me...This is a book that will tattoo itself on all the places you love to look at most."--Hanif Abdurraqib, author of They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

Details ISBN1938912136 Author Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz Pages 104 Publisher Write Bloody Publishing Year 2018 ISBN-10 1938912136 ISBN-13 9781938912139 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2018-03-01 Imprint Write Bloody Publishing Language English UK Release Date 2018-03-01 Audience General We've got this

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