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"We return here often," says Al Black in the book's title poem, "to resume mid-sentence our conversation upon my deck." That's the feel of this book, a kind of wide-ranging conversation with a friend. Even as the book teases out in confessional poems the relation between the past and the present, the author's origins in the Midwest and his life now in the American South, and even as it opens out into broader perspective in voices and stories that spin through the heart of the book, it comes back to the quiet intimacy and vulnerability that drives this collection. Leavetaking and loss haunt the book, but a desire for connection and continuity keeps us coming back to the deck for that "gift of time together." - Ed Madden, author of Nest

Book details

Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Full title: I Only Left for Tea
• Author: Al Black
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 82
• EAN: 9781942081005
• ISBN: 9781942081005
• ID: 08889163
• Publisher: Muddy Ford Press LLC
• Weight: 126 g
• Dimensions: 152 × 229 × 4 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. August 2014

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