Next to Nothing by Chris Agee

Next to Nothing by Chris Agee

Next to Nothing records the years following the death of a beloved child in 2001. Though bereft of belief in the poetic outcome compared to the apocalypse of the loss itself (one sense of the title), the fidelity of these poems to the heartscapes of grief constitutes, nonetheless, a work of genuine honouring spare, delicate, and deeply moving.

It is a profound and exceptionally moving bookI haven’t read anything so powerful for a long time. I was left with a sense of both the fragility and the huge importance of the here and now, as well as with an expanded sense of poetry’s capacity.”

-- Hugh Dunkerley * The London Magazine *

Next to love, grief is the great enabler of poems. In many ways grief is more powerful than love, whether in fiction or poetry. Love, especially if it is a happy collaboration between adults, excludes us from its golden circle even as readers, whereas grief, with its sense of crisis and abandonment, ignites our sense of humanity and calls us to become a part of its urgent business. In this, his latest collection of poems, the American born, Belfast-based poet, Chris Agee, has created a compelling, grief-stricken narrative.

-- Thomas McCarthy * Irish Times *

Chris Agee was born in 1956 in San Francisco and grew up in Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island. He attended Harvard University and since 1979 has lived in Ireland. He is the author of two books of poems, In the New Hampshire Woods (The Dedalus Press, 1992) and First Light (The Dedalus Press, 2003). He edits Irish Pages, a journal of contemporary writing based at The Linen Hall Library, Belfast. He reviews for The Irish Times and has recently completed a new collection of poems, Next to Nothing (Salt, 2009), which will be published in Britain, Ireland and the United States in January 2009.

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ISBN 13	9781844714896
ISBN 10	1844714896
Title	Next to Nothing
Author	Chris Agee
Series	Salt Modern Poets
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Salt Publishing
Year published	2009-01-15
Number of pages	128
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