ISBN: 0810128594 9780810128590

Category: Poetry / General

Page count: 80

A central theme of <i>The Golden Road</i> is the prolonged dementia of the poet’s husband. But Rachel Hadas’s new collection sets the loneliness of progressive loss in the context of the continuities that sustain her: reading, writing, and memory; familiar places; and the rich texture of a life fully lived. These poems are meticulously observed, nimble in their deployment of a range of forms, and capacious in their range of reference. They take us to a Greek island, to Carl Schurz Park in New York City, to an old house in Vermont, to a performance of <i>Macbeth,</i> and to the neurology floor of a hospital. Hadas finds beauty in all those places. <i>The Golden Road</i> laments, but it also celebrates.