Carol Ann Duffy's new anthology, Empty Nest: Poems for Families, probes the loosening of ties between parents and children."It is the unsafety of the writing about family that is striking, the sense of so much being at stake. At a time when many are struggling with full nest syndrome, this book rehearses a different scene–a dance between closeness and distance."
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"'Carrion Comfort' is music; it is magic; it is my old companion during the long dark nights I lie sleepless and wracked with hopelessness, clinging to the poem as evidence that another soul has met the struggle and come out of it burning, come carrying a beauty so dazzling it is hard to look at directly."
