The Things - Oaks, Jeff
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"Written in the wake of the poet's mother's Stage 4 cancer diagnosis, The Things tackles not only the keen anticipation of grief and loss but also its arrival and aftermath. These lyrical and searingly direct poems navigate through the empty spaces left behind by death and chart a path from sorrow back into the physical world. Oaks, the author of Little What (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2019), captures and honors his mother's irrepressible personality while recounting his own process of inheriting and letting go of her "things""--

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"Written in the wake of the poet's mother's Stage 4 cancer diagnosis, The Things tackles not only the keen anticipation of grief and loss but also its arrival and aftermath. These lyrical and searingly direct poems navigate through the empty spaces left behind by death and chart a path from sorrow back into the physical world. Oaks, the author of Little What (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2019), captures and honors his mother's irrepressible personality while recounting his own process of inheriting and letting go of her "things""--
Autorenporträt
Jeff Oaks' debut book of poetry, Little What, was published by Lily Poetry Review Books in September 2019. A recipient of three Pennsylvania Council of the Arts fellowships, Oaks has published poems in a number of literary magazines, most recently in Field, Georgia Review, Missouri Review, Superstition Review, and Tupelo Quarterly. His work has appeared in the anthologies The Familiar Wild: on Dogs and Poetry, Brief Encounters: A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction, and My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them. He teaches writing at the University of Pittsburgh.