Absence by Ali Lewis Yousif M. Qasmiyeh Janet Lees

Janet Lees

following her own unique path

enfolds the intimacy of the known with what is unseen

Parallel Movement of the Hands collects five long

and Really Not Really is simply a brilliant sophomore collection by a poet who shines on and off the page

Absence by Ali Lewis Yousif M. Qasmiyeh Janet LeesAbsence, the third title in CHEERIO's acclaimed poetry series, is a book about nothing. Or nothings: losses, vacua, gaps. From the desolation at the heat death of the universe to the impassable distance between two people talking, and from the trust exercise of walking in darkness to experiments on the vacuum, Absence searches for what's missing and what we never had. Starting with the problem of how to represent that that isn't there, and ending with