A Memory of the Future: Poems

Download or read book A Memory of the Future: Poems written by Elizabeth Spires and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Book Review Best Poetry of 2018 “Like a cup of tea for the weary.” —Washington Post In this Zen-infused and meditative collection, critically acclaimed poet Elizabeth Spires reflects on memory, mortality, and the boundaries of human existence. Inspired by the tradition of poetic interest in Zen, Spires explores selfhood and the search for a core identity, interrogating the divide between the social persona and the artist’s secret self. The poems in A Memory of the Future ask the unanswerable questions that become more pressing in the second half of life: How are we changed by the passage of time? How does memory define and shape us?