An Image Not a Book

Author: Kylan Rice

Publisher: Parlor Press (2024)

An Image Not a Book is an attempt to register "the strain / of assembly," the difficulty of gathering, garlanding, and holding-together while grieving lost companionship. Instead of raging after order, these poems adapt themselves to looser, more tenuous forms of interwovenness. Improvising restless structures that come together, fall apart, then recombine again, An Image Not a Book is an account of relearning how to dwell in this world (the only world there is) in the aftermath of a catastrophe.