Turning back toward the past, to reckon with and reclaim it, this book seeks to untangle memory. On its surface, Untying the Knot is about severance-about leaving the beloved behind and, likewise, getting left-but it is also a meditation on the sources of love and language. "It's a comfort / to imagine our rounded bones / becoming round bits of the globe / our spirits rising to orbit among spiral galaxies / joining those who completed the circle before...
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