Publisher's Synopsis
"The lucid, tender poems in Ça Existe, Lauri Robertson's fifth collection from Spuyten Duyvil, continue to unfold as a series of musings that proceed, literally, from a tower in the Loire valley, the "Garden of France." From her new home, the poet as expatriate psychotherapist-in-retirement addresses the predicament of aging "Boomers" bearing witness to a brutally humanized but undying planet. In the words of the poet: "The funeral parlor next to the bar / is for sale. Actually, the bar is too." We take it from there, and move onward"--.