White Holes

Poetry. WHITE HOLES is a sequence of poems that attempts to give speech, broken as it might be, to the grief that is felt in the wake of a mother's death. Here, in James Hart's left-behind world, what isn't said--what can't be said--carries as much weight as what is said. There is a delicate balance in these poems between language and articulation and the fractured space, both psychic and visible, that must be entered and accounted for in the aftermath of the mother's absence. It was Beckett who made the claim that "you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on." This book seizes hold of this declaration and makes from it an artifact that both holy and wholly Hart's own. James Hart III lives and works in Detroit, where he runs a poetry series at the Zeitgeist Gallery on Michigan Avenue. He is also author of The Watchable Book.