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A SHADE I CANNOT NAME by Carol Traynor Mayer

Name: A SHADE I CANNOT NAME by Carol Traynor Mayer
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In Carol Traynor Mayer’s masterful debut, A Shade I Cannot Name, presence and absence, place and placelessness, delicately, fleetingly commune. “Workers abandon the job, / for winter, that isn’t winter / at all,” she writes. Traynor Mayer challenges the world she presents and pursues an elusive question, “Must everything be likened / to something else to matter?” She employs a mere six similes with language paradoxically lush and spare. Take a flashlight to her half-dark rooms; sink into the vulnerability she offers. This poetry is a hauntingly original search for meaning and more.

–Alison Palmer, author of Bargaining with the Fall

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A SHADE I CANNOT NAME

by Carol Traynor Mayer

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A Shade I Cannot Name by Carol Traynor Mayer is a vulnerable yet forthright series of imagistic poems on place, aging, and family. A deceptively quiet voice wrestles an uneasy sense of peace from everyday weightiness. Meticulous and composed, a life long-lived moves across its masterfully crafted landscape that employs “much in little.” Sparing diction in each poem paradoxically constructs the framework for this collection’s complex confessional.

Carol Traynor Mayer received her MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. Her work appears in Allium: A Journal of Poetry and Prose, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, and Saw Palm. Traynor Mayer is a member of Cambridge Common Writers.