Static of a Wren's Absence To pay by check please use this order form. We are pleased to take orders from retailers. Email us with details about your order or call us at 207-837-5760. Static of a Wren’s Absence inhabits moments that are fragile and fleeting. Times of uncertainty and liminality are handled with reverence, as these poems recognize that a transformative power is inseparable from life’s recurring patterns of potentiality and loss. This is a book of complementary forces and counter-balances, where the pitfalls of isolation and self-limiting beliefs also act as catalysts for change: “the question of cutting / a nest from its branches— / creating a sky, / eliminating a life— / softens us into / the cerulean swirl” (from “The Immeasurables”). Tracing the flight of a moth, circling an algae-covered pond, and watching a bird on its treetop perch sway in the wind, Lelito uses natural imagery to pursue questions of separation and belonging. The poems in this collection consider the path forward with careful attention and emerge with a more compassionate perspective. They seek connection, navigate the beginning and end of relationships, and confront paradoxes of both inner and outer landscapes. They contemplate perennial themes of subjectivity, emptiness, attachment, and impermanence. POETRY / General ISBN: 978-1-971191-37-9 (print; softcover; perfect bound) 104 pages |
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“Aaron Lelito’s poems trace the subtle moments that shape our lives, from observing a storm through a rain-streaked windshield to the tender glow of candlelight between two strangers holding hands. These poems linger in the spaces between what is said and heard, and what is felt.” “‘Ask how much you are responsible / for anything that happens: / a seagull narrowing into curved space, / the quieting of a room / after applause . . . ’ writes Aaron Lelito in his stunning collection Static of a Wren’s Absence. Writing of the world’s granularity while never flinching from big, complex questions, Lelito’s poems are surreal and sonically rich. Raindrops have as much gravitational pull as the speaker’s consciousness. From start to finish, this collection is mesmerizing, vulnerable, and alive.” “Static of a Wren’s Absence feels like the written embodiment of making space for your own truth. This collection reads as an admission of care for the delicate commitments that connect us to each other and the world around us, tenderly emphasizing the push-and-pull of vulnerability, identity, and human liminality. Simultaneously electric and tender, Lelito’s poems pair atomically precise language with ephemeral natural elements to express life’s ebb and flow of personal growth and human connection.” “These poems carry a contemplative quiet—an attention to interiority, perception, and the permeability between self and environment that is clearly the product of a mature practice. There is real craft here, and moments of striking intuition.” |
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