Preemptive Elegy - Paperback

In poems that move and accrue with the jazz-like fluidity of the mind, Scott Bade's newest collection emerges from the elegiac tradition, in which a death becomes a portal to meditations on love, selfhood, and the nature of memory itself. The portal likewise opens space for the contemplation of desire, perhaps grief's counterbalance. "Desire is the color of what leaves / but never leaves," he...