Broken Metronome Quitab Editions —Ellen Bass

—Ellen Bass

” And yet

the poet is uttering prophecies that we must heed or history is

" This collection engages the 'dark night of the soul' and the presumptions of optimism

" These are powerful

Broken Metronome Quitab Editions —Ellen BassWhat happens to the rhythms of life when the body fails us? In Broken Metronome Connie Post composes using the erratic and irreducible language of loss. In this elegy to her brother's death by Parkinson's, she engages the medical language she must maneuver as she works through her brother's condition: "Hypokinesia slow or diminished movement I try to move slowly with you like when we practiced for the seventh grade dance." These poems are written in