Barbara DeCesare on Faraway Tables: “A Surreal Metamorphosis in Mirrors and Headlines”

 

Poets and readers are seated at the table! Today's endorsement comes from poet Barbara DeCesare, known for her collections Silent Type and JigSawEyeSore. DeCesare writes:

“The poems of Faraway Tables explore the transition of life into middle age, through Covid, renegotiating connections that become increasingly distant through technology, and the struggles of maintaining relevance in a freshly foreign world. The poems navigate the competition of desire to control and to relinquish control, the grief of releasing what was and struggle to love what is.

“Goodman considers his transformation into wildness during the years of pandemic-induced isolation, and notes the world likewise becoming less tame — vacation travel memories usurped by destruction and recent war, concerns about the world his children inherit. He is confronted with a surreal metamorphosis in mirrors and headlines.  

“Goodman's thoughtful explorations of his place in a world nearly out of grasp offer insight into the courage necessary to love a life that's no longer altogether familiar.”

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