Untying the Knot

by Karen Paul Holmes

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0615998984
• ISBN13: 9780615998985
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Aldrich Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.2" x 6.0"