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Format: 6.5 x 6.5 paperback
Release Date: December 15, 2020
ISBN: 978-1-57869-042-8
eBook ISBN: 978-1-57869-043-5 Click Here to Purchase eBook
LCCN: 2020915443

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EXCERPT

Tempo  

Caches of rubble are the obstacles
                          so slowly, geologically formed,
                  I took them as landmarks,
                                             orienting myself in accord.
But they shift under my feet at a tempo
                                       I fail to notice.

ADVANCE PRAISE

“These poems are palpable with grief, desire, trauma, wisdom, and tenderness. Some of the shorter forms are as striking and enigmatic as Sappho’s lyrical fragments. Zimet’s collection reminds that wounds hurt us into poetry. Poetry is a necessity.”

—Ewa Chrusciel, author of Contraband of Hoopoe and Of Annunciations

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“The poems in Eva Zimet’s The Lost Grip sing with startling insights that are deeply human in their wise, self-effacing, and often risible revelations. Zimet demonstrates with “little irritable reaching” an essential paradox of memorable poetry, namely, a hard-won verbal economy that is stunning in its surprising truths that most fear to admit to at the cost of self-delusion. These poems betray a rare sagacity that is bittersweet, searing, and liberating.”

—Chard deNiord, Vermont Poet Laureate (2015-2019), author of In My Unknowing

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“Meditating on grief, trauma, and healing as they shapeshift into parts of the body, changes in the weather, and even objects in the room, Zimet deftly delivers what she promises—a glimpse at the ineffable face of loss, a warm hand to clasp onto, even as it slips.”

—Mag Gabbert, PhD, author of Minml Poems

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“The Lost Grip is a collection of poems that will surprise you in their fresh approach to the dramas of older age—the griefs and complexities which only come with real maturity. Zimet handles with a light touch much which has been manhandled ponderously by other writers. The territory is familiar, but her voice sings out even so.”

—Mary Dingee Fillmore, author of An Address in Amsterdam

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“The Lost Grip contains poems that seem experimental, in the creationist style of the great Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro; it has short poems, Haiku; some poems, at times, feel playful, almost an invitation to dance. But please know that there is, at its core and very present in this book, a sense of loss, grief, trauma, survival, and recovery; a recovery that is not bitter, nor hopeless, but powerful instead. So, be prepared, as some poems come at you, almost creeping; and once you are in, once you can't turn back, only then you realize what you are in for, and it is powerful!”

—Keiselim A. Montás, author of Like Water (A Haiku Collection)

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“Opening Eva Zimet’s first book of poetry The Lost Grip …. You can’t stand back and watch. Your hand has been taken; an arm touches your back lightly; you are drawn onto the floor. You must feel and share it in the dance.

This delicate, piercing volume sometimes confides, sometimes spins you around, sometimes tugs you back in close; sometimes pauses and stands there with you, waiting.

The book is haunted by violence and the struggle to recover trust and intimacy, sometimes brusque and almost protective in tone. This book is not for the faint of heart, but when you stick with it, it sticks with you, and in its own spare, powerful way offers unexpected comfort.”

—Scudder H. Parker, poet & author of Safe as Lightning

In the News

New Pages, December 15, 2020, ‘The Lost Grip’ by Eva Zimet Is Not for the Faint of Heart, a flash review by Scudder Parker. Read Here.

Times Argus, December 28, 2020, “Turning Loss into Words: Eva Zimet debuts a collection of poetry” by Peter Cobb. Read here.

Burlington Free Press, May 26, 2021, “38 Vermont books to meet all your summer reading needs” by Brent Hallenbeck. Read here.

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