Eleanor Jackson, A Leaving (dB3) His Days of Disquiet

His Days of Disquiet

He died in 2002

Her work mines the intersection of the personal

” — Javant Biarujia

From the Karen ethnic minority

Eleanor Jackson, A Leaving (dB3) His Days of DisquietIn this spare and sharply observed collection of poems is the essence of a human story: what transpires when, despite all reason, we love someone who makes it difficult to love them. The imagery is a shocking and sometimes bleakly humorous mixture of the intimacies of blood and drink with the detachment of words and memories perhaps most of all the final detachment of writing itself. "A Leaving reads like a photograph taken before the body cools, a