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The Lost Time Accidents

The Lost Time Accidents

Finalist, Raymond Souster Award
In this timely and powerful debut, Síle Englert explores what it is to feel othered in a world where everything is connected. Moving through time and memory — from childhood to motherhood, from historical figures and events to the precarious environment of the Anthropocene — Englert’s voice brims with grief while still holding space for whimsy.
Juxtaposing unlikely metaphors and inchoate memories, these poems wander a timeline where Amelia Earhart’s bones call out from the past, an abandoned department store mannequin keeps an eye on the future, and spacecraft sing to each other through the dark: "we are only what we remember." Unearthing objects beautiful and bizarre, The Lost Time Accidents challenges the reader’s perceptions, finding empathy for the lost, the broken, and the overlooked.

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An extremely intriguing set of poems

This book is honestly unlike anything I’ve read before. Trying to sum up this book as a whole in a few sentences is something I am not going to do, as there is just so much to think about and know. This is an amazing book, I loved it. It’s incredibly detailed, and made me think in ways I had yet to think of before when it comes to some objects and feelings.

This book is done in poetry style, with some poems being a few sentences and others stretching longer. I wouldn’t say there is any particular theme to all these poems, yet to me they eventually all felt like they were connected and telling an overall bigger story. A lot of the poems do touch on the female body though, and living in one, which I find interesting. There is a poem on Amelia Earhart’s bones, there is a poem on the functionality of the knee, there is a poem on the deconstruction of a soldier. The poems here are extremely vast, and touch on many subjects in such great detail. I find it very intriguing.

I would recommend this book to anyone looking for something different to read. Something that reveals bits and pieces about things you never would’ve even thought of. Something that describes and details in ways you never would’ve thought before.

I recommend this book.

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