Publisher's Synopsis
"The title poem of Amy Barone's new collection is a memorial to the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, revealing that the extinction we are facing is our own, by our own hands. She is a clear-eyed realist in her enumeration of our losses and the slow erosion of "Civilization as I like it," but also an optimist who finds hope in such "heirlooms" as analog clocks, spicy food, and handkerchiefs, in the fact the Catallus still instructs us over centuries, and in trees "that take longer / than stars and some loves to die." Drawing on the lessons of pandemic, she ends by exhorting us to "Recharge your smartphone - / freedom's on the line.""--.
