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This won't end well. These poems are an exploration of the fraught relationship between our fragile, complex human bodies and our time in the world. ""The landscape, the grid, the clock"" rules us all. On some level we understand this essential truth but continue to insist we are ""in the middle of things"". Each of us must learn this difficult lesson: we cannot change the past, and we must move forward. However, our ability to love, to make ourselves available to each other - sometimes in ways we never imagined - can help us discover new relationships with beginnings and endings, with our bodies, with the world. If not now, when?

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At the End of My Bones by Naomi Leimsider is a powerful poetry collection that examines the intimate, uneasy relationship between self, memory, and the world we inhabit. Moving through moments of fracture and tenderness, these poems ask what it means to remember, to imagine, and to become. With lines that linger, ""Our uneasy relationship / with memory. Still, imagine us the way we were,"" Leimsider offers poems of discovery and hard-won resolution. -Leah Huete de Maines, Poet-in-Residence Emerita at Northern Kentucky University

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Naomi Bess Leimsider's poetry book, Wild Evolution, was published in June 2023. In 2022, she received a Pushcart Prize nomination for fiction. She has published poems, flash fiction, and short stories in numerous journals, including Branches, Ellipsis, Heavy Feather Review, Mantis, Unleash Lit, Tangled Locks Journal, Booth, Syncopation Literary Journal, On the Seawall, Orca, Anti-Heroin Chic, Rogue Agent Journal, Quarterly West, Newtown Literary, and The Adirondack Review. In addition, she has been a finalist for the Acacia Fiction Prize and the Saguaro Poetry Prize. She teaches creative writing and expository writing at Hunter College/CUNY.

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