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A SHADE I CANNOT NAME by Carol Traynor Mayer is a vulnerable yet forthright series of imagistic poems on place, aging, and family. A deceptively quiet voice wrestles an uneasy sense of peace from everyday weightiness. Meticulous and composed, a life long-lived moves across its masterfully crafted landscape that employs ""much in little."" Sparing diction in each poem paradoxically constructs the framework for this collection's complex confessional.

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In Carol Traynor Mayer's masterful debut, A Shade I Cannot Name, presence and absence, place and placelessness, delicately, fleetingly commune. ""Workers abandon the job, / for winter, that isn't winter / at all,"" she writes. Traynor Mayer challenges the world she presents and pursues an elusive question, ""Must everything be likened / to something else to matter?"" She employs a mere six similes with language paradoxically lush and spare. Take a flashlight to her half-dark rooms; sink into the vulnerability she offers. This poetry is a hauntingly original search for meaning and more. Alison Palmer, author of Bargaining with the Fall

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