Liner Notes by Ciaran Berry James Harpur Muriel Rukeyser

Muriel Rukeyser

Andrés Sánchez Robayna was born in the Canary Islands in 1952

with graceful

moments of acute observation and imagination

And is a book that blends delight and loss

Liner Notes by Ciaran Berry James Harpur Muriel RukeyserFrom brief lyrics that examine a mixtape or a plectrum to larger meditations on the connections between the life of Robert Frost and a trip to the supermarket in the snow, the poems in Ciaran Berrys third collection consider questions of what it means to grow up somewhere and grow away from somewhere. His voice is by turns celebratory, elegiac, inquisitive and quietly humorous, as he conjures a past thats bric brac and hand me down. As these poems