Erasure Marks

In Erasure Marks, Mary Fox charts in clear-eyed and tough-minded poems a long life well-lived and well-loved. Songs (memories) as fragile as breath find their human register here as she embarks from the silence of the womb into the sentimental education of being named, learning to read, being loved, knowing grief, the gendered tethering and untethering inside the domestic. It's all here - a chair saved, a bottle of cologne, a tone of a voice, the shape of absence in moonlight. Not done yet...