Absence by Ali Lewis Yousif M. Qasmiyeh Cath Nichols

Cath Nichols

two in English thanks to the brilliant poet-translator Forrest Gander

following her own unique path

Rich in symbolism and mythology

Absence by Ali Lewis Yousif M. Qasmiyeh Cath NicholsAbsence, 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