Seams of Repair: Poems about Eternity and Cracks

I have been liked Stephanie Green's prose poems and published them in the Arc prose poetry anthology. In her recent book 'Seams of Repair,' I read her free verse imagist poems for the first time. The last poem, Direction to Continue, is written in a split prose poem, an experimental one, with a right serrated margin. I always believe that great prose is formed with implied poetry, indecipherable, mystic. As the writer has admitted in the introduction, it is inspired by the Kintsukuroi, an ancient Japanese art, which believes all things are unique and undergo breakage, they need repair. The eternity reflects and lives in breakage, it doesn’t end, but goes on infinitely. I like confessional feats which are smeared in the poetry plot. Concrete concepts lead to abstract concepts, and it encourages thinking about more abstract. And it all goes in the daughter/granddaughter, daughter/father dynamics. 

I especially liked nostalgic tones like father eating lunch solitary, whizzing jazz tunes, blue shirt, holidays, rocks, scattering sound of coffee beans, Dahlias, hibiscus, etc. These memory metaphors have intensified the thematic density —eternity prevails despite cracks.

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