Unexhausted Time inhabits a world of dream and dawn, in which thoughts touch us -like soft rain-, and all the elements are brought closer in.
Feelings, messages, symbols, visions . . . Emily Berry-s latest collection takes shape in the half-light between the real and the imagined, where everything is lost and yet -nothing goes away-. Here life-s innumerable impressions, moods, seasons and d- vus collect and disarrange themselves, while a glowing, companionable -I- travels the mind-s landscapes in hope of refuge and transformation amid these displaced moments in time. Whether one reads Unexhausted Time as a long poem to step into or a series of titled and untitled fragments to pick up and cherish, the work is healing and inspiring, always asking how we might harness the power of naming without losing life-s -magic unknownness-. By offering these intangible encounters, Emily Berry more truly presents -what being alive is-.
-Emily Berry has a refreshi
