Immortal Stuff

Cathryn Hankla's eleventh volume of poetry and second full-length collection of prose poems, offers us an intimate catalog of what's remembered, what's observed, and what's imagined. Lyrical or narrative by turns, nuanced and deft, Hankla's prose poems range through the realms of reflection and imagination.

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Cathryn Hankla's eleventh volume of poetry and second full-length collection of prose poems, offers us an intimate catalog of what's remembered, what's observed, and what's imagined. Lyrical or narrative by turns, nuanced and deft, Hankla's prose poems range through the realms of reflection and imagination, finding them not so different: they rub shoulders and embrace like old friends. Significance pours equally from relationships, objects, and situations, which mean to mark us, confound us, and change us continually from contact with the wondrous and the wondrous ordinary, and the insights we take away. The voice guiding us is willing to encounter what comes, while surrendered to what happens next, to what has happened, and to living between knowing and wanting to know. Mature experience brings more mysteries than answers, and with that the sort of wisdom that can break into song or droll laughter. After all, ""This is a heart trip not a head trip."" Hankla wraps her arms around what matters: ""Bringing everything to light one thing at a time"" and us along for joy in the journey.