how do you spell the sound of crickets

Paola Bruni & Jory Post

 

 
 
 
 
 

wrote Jory Post to Paola Bruni as he was dying of inoperable cancer.
Hence, the quiet conversation ensued
—one poet to another—
an intimate sharing of hopes, fears, and grief.

“The me as a poet hunts for more ways to stay alive than he does chasing or trying to understand death. What’s to understand?”

 “…I still startle awake in the middle of the night expecting the elemental to wave its wand of reduction. Aren’t we always waltzing between something and nothing?”

 

REVIEWS

 

“This compelling collection of epistolary exchanges invites us into a relationship two poets have formed as one is slowly dying of cancer. So begins a conversation that becomes necessary to both. With Neruda as a guide they gather in the emptiness around them with the open living hands of friendship and poetry.”

—Dorianne Laux, Pulizer Prize Nominee and author of Only As the Day is Long

 

Poets Paola Bruni and Jory Post created a book both rapturous and melancholy, a monument to the creative urge, to poetry, and to the music of two voices singing in harmony. Their poems speak with great affection and candor, and carry the reader along on their intimate, revealing journey.

—Gary Young,
author of No Other Life

 

How do you spell the sound of crickets is both full of life and deeply moving. You will be won over by the voices of Jory Post and Paola Bruni, in earnest dialogue. But it’s what they each do with poetry that will stay with you. They "make it new." They invent it once more in one of its earliest forms: as a healing art.

—Ken Weisner, author of Anything on Earth and Cricket to Star

 

“In this brief epistolary collection, poets Paola Bruni and Jory Post confront mortality. Whether through humor, deep reflection, shared grief, or the sometimes-uneasy bond of those who contemplate our finitude, these poets offer a bold fiat that fully embraces both the blessing and the curse of inhabiting a human body.”

—Frank Paino, author of Obscura

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