The First Echo: Poems

The First Echo meditates on the comings and goings of midlifeùbirths and deaths, losses and gains, despairs and hopes. In poems that range from rigorous formalism to breathless free verse, Shane Seely reaches for instruction, understanding, and comfort. He finds solace in works of artùincluding paintings, literature, and filmùas well as in nature, human relationships, and memory. He suggests that, like the bat or the whale, we humans understand ourselves through echo, through the sounds we send out and the sounds that come back. That returning voice, like our own and yet not quite ours, reminds us that to be alone is to be with a self that is at once strange and familiar. Evocative and engaging, The First Echo offers poems on memory, illness, and griefùreflecting on the sadness and knowledge attached to each.

• | Author: Shane Seely
• | Publisher: Lsu Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 19, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 80 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Poetry
• | ISBN-10: 0807169633
• | ISBN-13: 9780807169636