A Memory of the Future - by Elizabeth Spires (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><em>New York Times Book Review</em> Best Poetry of 2018<br /><br /> "Like a cup of tea for the weary." --<em>Washington Post</em><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>In this Zen-infused and meditative collection, critically acclaimed poet Elizabeth Spires reflects on memory, mortality, and the boundaries of human existence. Inspired by the tradition of poetic interest in Zen, Spires explores selfhood and the search for a core identity, interrogating the divide between the social persona and the artist's secret self. The poems in <em>A Memory of the Future</em> ask the unanswerable questions that become more pressing in the second half of life: How are we changed by the passage of time? How does memory define and shape us?</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>[Elizabeth Spires's] haunting work is filled with a mix of active spiritualism intersecting with meditational silences.... These poems glow with interiority--profound, intense, spiritual.--Laverne Frith "New York Journal of Books"<br><br>A book worthy of pondering... Spires offers so many questions and considerations, yet they all return to our fleeting existences.--Nick Ripatrazone "Millions"<br><br>All the distinguishing characteristics we've come to associate with Elizabeth Spires's poems--their shimmering clarity, verbal restraint, and self-interrogations--are enacted in this new work of meticulous surfaces and surprising depths. . . . Spires's consuming subject--the fluidity of time set against the immutable presence of death--is approached with Zen-sparked simplicity: 'As one grows older, / there should be fewer / and fewer words to say.' Yet those few words, as set down in <em>A Memory of the Future</em>, resonate with wisdom and insistent wonder.--Michael Waters, author of Celestial Joyride<br><br>It is a pleasure to read Elizabeth Spires's new book.... The entire book, including its cover, shows a love of the transparent philosophy of Zen and the art associated with it and perhaps a desire for its detachment.--Mark Jarman "Hudson Review"<br><br>Quiet and forceful, Spires has taken random moments and created a book full of memories through her words, altering the future for those fortunate enough to read her work.--Lee E. Cart "Shelf Awareness"<br><br>Sprinkled with philosophical inquiries and Zen koans like that of the title, Spires's contemplative [seventh] collection opens with delicious wordplay.-- "New York Times Book Review"<br><br>The poems feel like prayers, and in some cases koans--each unique but all with a timeless, spiritual quality.... Little nuggets of wisdom come like offerings placed on an altar, quietly, with grace and intention.--Lauren LaRocca "Baltimore magazine"<br><br>The spare, sly lines in <em>A Memory of the Future</em> are a reminder that the game of a poem is sometimes better advanced by underplaying.--David Orr "New York Times Book Review"<br><br>There are a number of instances where [Spires] uses words with such sparing potency, a veteran surgeon who knows how to make the smallest incision to get to what she's after.--Bret McCabe "Johns Hopkins Magazine"<br><br>This is poetry just about anyone might savor.... <em>A Memory of the Future</em> gives us what's more valuable than easy answers, the questioning.--Jeanne Larsen "Hollins Critic"<br>
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