DAYS

Author: Simone Kearney

Publisher: Belladonna* (2021)

"A foray, a meander, a meditation on time and things and the making and makings of days—such are rough terms that one could use to describe Simone Kearney’s DAYS, a debut volume rich with cultural detail, all strung on threads of rigorous thought. Kearney sets forth not to mark time (days) but to follow words on the move, words liberated from any expectation as to what they might attract or what they might generate. My own experience as I read through the book’s sequence of 108 interlinking seven-line poems was one of delighted, intense, and full out engagement—an experience I’ve repeated three times and will repeat again. Kearney’s DAYS is (are) superbly expansive, proof that time isn’t ticks of a clock but 'place in the field, field, field, more field.'"

—Lyn Hejinian