Broken Metronome Quitab Editions " This collection engages the

" This collection engages the 'dark night of the soul' and the presumptions of optimism

—Ellen Bass

she punctuates her essay with lush passages of meals

which functions as a kind of mirror

Broken Metronome Quitab Editions " This collection engages theWhat happens to the rhythms of life when the body fails us? In Broken Metronome Connie Post composes using the erratic and irreducible language of loss. In this elegy to her brother's death by Parkinson's, she engages the medical language she must maneuver as she works through her brother's condition: "Hypokinesia slow or diminished movement I try to move slowly with you like when we practiced for the seventh grade dance." These poems are written in