The Way Things Are at the Moment
By Bill Howell
Paperback: US$23.00
The Way Things Are at the Moment conjures a world of words where the connections and relationships between things, moreso than the things themselves, matter most. Where walking a Nova Scotia beach leads into rooms packed with memories. Where an operation exposes Miles Davis’ trumpet. And where being alone never happens in isolation. Independent of linear time, each poem offers a fractal view of what one cannot really discern until the book’s end – how much our conventions of time, space and memory fail to suppress not so much what we want to say but what we want to feel.
—James Carson, editor, Queen’s Quarterly