Name: The Yellow Room, Paperback/Amy Gordon
Brand: Finishing Line Press
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In The Yellow Room , Amy Gordon has composed a unique poetic songbook about mortality, bravery, and time. The first line of the book-"Stare into the yellow room"-is both directive and guide to the self and the reader, given by a speaker navigating the rocky terrain of living with illness, death, and grief but writing about it with sure-footed grace. Gordon's poems are at once inviting and surprising; they take bold, associative leaps and unpack and remake language and myth. They assert that sometimes there is nothing to do but "invent joy" or "admire the beavers' gnawed sculptures" when faced with the end of a beloved season, or of life itself. In the ecopoem "Bequest," Gordon expresses the desire that the beauty of the natural will last; these poems make good on that impulse. The humor, pathos, and questions in these pages are memorable. The Yellow Room is a collection stunned by the world and its mysteries, aware that sometimes "there are no answers," and yet seeking all the same. -Rebecca Hart Olander , author of Uncertain Acrobats (CavanKerry Press) In The Yellow Room , Amy Gordon is frank and unafraid to grapple with serious subject matter, and what's more, the collection includes so much beauty. In many of her poems, Gordon paints images, images, images, and then slices in with thoughtful insights and surprising reflections. She trusts the reader, gives us just enough, leaves space for us to think, feel, and interpret. That said, I should mention that Gordon's unafraid