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Fifteenth-century theologian and philosopher Nicholas Malebranche said that attentiveness is the natural prayer of the soul. The title of this third collection by National Book Award finalist Harrison means both to pay attention to, and to be concerned by. These strange and moving poems take as one of their central tenets that the act of paying attention engenders care, empathy, and love. From the widest lenses\u2014history, time itself, the abandoned machines of space, ancient plagues, and the moon\u2014to the smallest creatures we share the imperiled planet with\u2014mice, wood frogs, birds, bats, and bees\u2014the poems of Reck ask what it means to live and how we can love in our historical moment, beset as we are by climate change, pandemic, war and cataclysms great and small. An early poem invites\u2014 <\/span>Come be with me we have tickets for the end\/ of the world<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

By turns funny, bitter, and deeply lyrical, this is a book of love, attention, concern, and grief.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

About the author<\/h2>\n

Leslie Harrison is the author of two previous books, <\/span><\/span>Displacement <\/span><\/span><\/em>(Mariner, 2009), which won the <\/span>Bakeless<\/span> prize in poetry, selected by <\/span>Eavan<\/span> Boland, and <\/span><\/span>The Book of Endings<\/span><\/span><\/em> (Akron, 2017), which was a finalist for the National Book Award. She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in poetry and a Mary Sawyers Baker artist award. She is a displaced New Englander who lives and works in Baltimore.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Praise for Reck<\/em><\/h2>\n

Leslie Harrison\u2019s <\/span>Reck <\/span><\/i>emerges from the ecstatic tradition, in which language transcends concrete meaning and becomes visionary. These poems are driven by the engine of litany, the structure of the parable, and the music of the praise song. They are epistolary and elegiac; they entice, leap, charm, and ritualize with the combustible energies of creation and apocalypse. <\/span>Reck <\/span><\/i>originates from the wisdom of many disciplines\u2014physics, ecology, history, theology, astronomy\u2014all framed by the lyric imperative. Many poets observe and enact beauty. Harrison channels beauty\u2019s DNA, its elemental design, and its wreckage, and through the sheer force of imagination, its unlikely resurrection. <\/span>Reck <\/span><\/i>wrecked and reckoned me.<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u2014Diane Seuss, author of frank: sonnets<\/i>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cCome be with me we have tickets for the end\/ of the world,\u201d Leslie Harrison writes in her extraordinary and propulsive new collection, <\/span>Reck<\/span><\/i>. The book begins with a definition of the title: to pay attention and to be alarmed, setting the stage for the labor of these poems to recognize, catalogue, and grieve the burning world \u201chere in the last America.\u201d Harrison achieves a kind of apocalyptic sublime in her obsessive, gorgeous work, inviting the reader to mourn within her music, and recognize within her imagery, what we\u2019ve lost. \u201c& I want you to follow me\/ & into the forest of no more answers no more questions,\u201d Harrison writes. Yes, I will follow, and reader, I hope you will too.<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u2014Allison White<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Leslie Harrison has masterfully written a world where only the glittering clauses remain, where the words that came before have disappeared.\u00a0 Each line trembles like the torn half of something lost, like “tickets for the end \/ of the world.”\u00a0 Reading <\/span>RECK <\/span><\/i>is to gain admittance into a heartbreaking and gorgeous final act of a world so filled with hope it might, through some miracle, “turn sunlight into children” and begin again.\u00a0 <\/span>
\n\u2014Sabrina Orah Mark<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Media<\/h2>\n

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