In her achingly beautiful and wry Unforgetting, Christine Potter's speaker invites her readers into the spaces where her family deals with her mother's dementia, yet the purview of the book is vaster than that disease. "Unforgetting" is the undoing of a state of mind and is itself a kind of attention, both a vigil for the past and joy for a present before things happen: the moment "before the needle dropped / onto the LP. Before passing time limited...
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