Failure to Merge - by Micah Ruelle (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Micah Ruelle takes on America's love affair with interstates as I-35, the freeway that divides the nation in half, takes on a persona and a pronoun in these epistolary poems. The road, which has long been a symbol of freedom, contends with its histories and which bodies can safely travel it, where it ends and begins, where "even eternity has its outsourcing." Here in the center of America are plants that can't resist care, bouquets of cotton, a road rage becomes embodied, state signs that remind you that it is through difficulty that you reach the stars.<em> Failure to Merge</em> reminds us that we can't become one with something, even if it's love.</p><p><strong>--Traci Brimhall</strong></p><p> </p><p>Micah Ruelle's <em>Failure to Merge</em>, an epistolary sequence, both adopts the persona of the major artery of America that is Highway I-35 and speaks back to it in a voice that is heartachingly raw, compassionate, and aggressively honest. The poems grapple with a country's lack of justice and the speaker's sense of personal loss--loss of love, of life, of a sense of spiritual reckoning. A homage to the places it traverses, notably Texas and the poet's Midwestern homeland, <em> Failure to Merge </em>sees, listens, and recognizes the human urge to understand and empathize with what we are often taught is other. 'This is the--my problem, ' she writes, 'This is why / I think of heaven as clouds / & not stems in the hearty earth.' As we travel with her via I-35, the speaker/poet's unlikely spiritual guide, Micah Ruelle urges us to celebrate and investigate the land we call our own.</p><p><strong>--Jenny Molberg</strong></p><p> </p><p>Micah Ruelle's epistolary poems in <em>Failure to Merge</em> remind me of the dialogue we are constantly having with ourselves, that internal voice that speaks to us from the deepest core of our being. Here, the poet is in dialogue with the personified ventricle that cuts through the heart of the United States Interstate 35--and the exchange is full of humor, wisdom, and truth. By journey's end, we learn to "listen more closely" to the sounds of the roads we choose to take, to our private heartbreaks, our private joys.</p><p><strong>--Octavio Quintanilla</strong></p><br>
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