Remnants of Hannah

By Dara Barrois/Dixon (née Dara Wier)

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• Reviews

• Remember when I told you about the memory competitions?
  
  Memories, apologies, and misunderstanding compete in this series of lyric poems that are intricately connected in their ability to recollect and speak to one another. A deftly woven tenth collection from a respected poet with a rapidly ascending reputation.

• I like this about Wier--a generosity. She offers the same openness in her lines, which read, again, as the self catching and setting free signals of the world.
  Olivia Cronk, Bookslut
  
  I like the deceptively-clear statements to Wier’s poems, her prose-stares that wind their way across the page in ways that poems are supposed to, and even not supposed to. There is a wonderful sense of gracefulness to these poems, and thus, the entire collection, which make me glad to have heard of her at all, and make me want to find at least one of her nine previous poetry books.
  Rob Mclennan
  
  Wier seems to bypass traditions of narrative and the surreal to communicate the loss of sense, politically, patriotically. She uses vertiginous distances, and quiet allusions and metaphors from nature and the shapes of thought. All these qualities add up to a lyrical interrogation of America, one devoid of pop diction, and cluttering references.
  Cynthia Arrieu King, Octopus Magazine
  
  The beauty of this collection of poems is most stunningly revealed in the deliberate repetition of images, words, objects, and phrases, all of which create a web that replicates the interconnectedness of events, emotions, and things to one another.
  Amanda McGuire, Mid-America Review