The Arc Remains

 

The Arc Remains

poems by Mimi White

ISBN: 978-0-9600293-7-2

68 pages; 6x9; $16.95

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Mimi White has published four books of poetry. Her chapbook, The Singed Horizon won The Philbrick Poetry Award, selected by Robert Creeley. Her first full-length book, The Last Island won the Jane Kenyon Award for Outstanding Poetry. Her poems have appeared in dozens of journals including Poetry, FIELD, The Seattle Review, and Stonecoast Review. She has been awarded fellowships from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and the Vermont Studio Center. After teaching for many years in a variety of settings she is now hosting “pop-up” poetry conversations in libraries wherever people wish to come together to read and enjoy poems. Mimi White is a longtime resident of Rye NH.

From the back cover

Praise for The Arc Remains

What we learn from the heartbreaking wisdom of The Arc Remains is that time is a lesson taken in doses. We can’t handle knowing all the twists and turns of our lives all at once. Thankfully, Mimi White offers us some guidance, both to prepare us for the journey ahead and to make sense of the footprints we’ve left behind. White knows that, “Some roads are a path/ we walk with others. Some/ a river that carries us.” There’s something beautiful when an eye gazes so keenly, expressing what we take in with honesty. Whether walking the path with our beloved or being carried away in the current of our days, we want these wondrously truthful poems in hand.    —A. Van Jordan

The poems in The Arc Remains articulate the specific, bewildering pain of a love that outlives the beloved. In these poems, imagination and experience meet in an almost dream-like space, where “Memory is a music box, / a little coffin / filled with song,” and persistence is a moral necessity. Mimi White makes something enduring out of what cannot last; by turns meditative and spare, understated and aching, this book is a cool, lucent object, forged in the furnace of grief.    —Maggie Dietz

Praise for The World Disguised as This One: A Year in Tanka

This beautifully observed, penetrating collection of tanka slips itself into and under awareness. A narrative holding equally an illness’s navigation and the abiding, altering beauty of existence, each five-line poem is complete in itself, a world presented in full. Yet in reading these pages through, their accumulation leads to a shifted landscape of being. As life itself does.    —Jane Hirshfield