Absence by Ali Lewis Yousif M. Qasmiyeh Parallel Movement of the Hands

Parallel Movement of the Hands collects five long

Cath Nichols

following her own unique path

enfolds the intimacy of the known with what is unseen

Absence by Ali Lewis Yousif M. Qasmiyeh Parallel Movement of the HandsAbsence, the third title in CHEERIO's acclaimed poetry series, is a book about nothing. Or nothings: losses, vacua, gaps. From the desolation at the heat death of the universe to the impassable distance between two people talking, and from the trust exercise of walking in darkness to experiments on the vacuum, Absence searches for what's missing and what we never had. Starting with the problem of how to represent that that isn't there, and ending with