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Poetry. Rebecca Starkss TIME IS ALWAYS NOW unfolds against a backdrop of nature, often permeated in unexpected ways with the human dynamics of family, neighborhood, and nation. Her poems convey the urgency within moments of transformation--whether seasonal, as in wilderness and garden; physical, as in the trajectory of youth, aging, and death; or political, as in the challenges of misgovernance and the environmental exigencies of our time. This finalist in the Able Muse Book Award is a finely wrought, thought-provoking collection.Drawing from sources as wide-ranging as Emily Dickinson, Apocalypse Now, fairy tales, and social media, Rebecca Starkss TIME IS ALWAYS NOW deftly balances intelligence and pathos, resisting easy dichotomies and judgments. As these fine poems insist, the present is relentless, and we are immersed: No, not out of time; helplessly in it. Ours is a country of guns; ours is a middle-aged earth in decline--and yet, we are here, witnessing, questioning. I am grateful for Starkss voice in the present moment, and Im grateful to have her poems to carry with me into the future, whatever it may bring.--Maggie SmithRebecca Starks writes with a sense that time can be stopped in a poem, lives suspended and drawn inward, even in the most aimless moments. Theres a wonderful clarity to TIME IS ALWAYS NOW, an electricity that feels bright and wild. Its to be found in the roadsides and a robins clutch, in the retina that registers pain, in the sky at dusk and the months of mud. I greet these poems with so much enthusiasm--these poems that crave, clarify, and propose sublime ways to become refreshed in our most confused times.--David BiespielAt one point, Rebecca Starks describes a winter hike, in which she crosses sociable mouse hops, two feet together and passes a squirrels scramble at the base of a tree, / then the bunched landings of a mustelid bound/ from the yawn under one log to another. Several of her wonderful books qualities are evidenced here. If too many poets, in their ignorance, regard nature as a mere repository of metaphor, Starks, like Frost, is both knowledgeable and uncannily accurate about it. (Yawn is the perfect word, say, in this passage.) Her sinuous and heavily subordinated syntax is also suggestive of a mind with great range--geographical, thematic, and prosodic--though she can also, as, for instance, in American Flag, move by a cunning terseness.--Sydney Lea
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