Low

Low explores the jaggedness of memory and what is salvageable when the past is broken by loss, violence, and trauma. Punctuating Nick Flynn´s signature lyric poems are prose pieces and sequences, veering toward essays, including "Notes on a Calendar Found in a Stranger´s Apartment," a truly strange experience of cataloging a deceased neighbor´s belongings and how quickly they become worthless; "Notes on Thorns & Blood," a study of time and wounds; and "Notes on a Year of Corona," a loose sonnet crown about the early stages of the pandemic and the unrest after racist police violence.