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Nothing Left to Fix traces a father's battle with Valley Fever and its devastating complications. Through poems that move from diagnosis to death to grief, this collection explores the inadequacy of medical intervention, the devotion of a wife who cares for her husband through his seven-year illness, and the small mercies found in flecks of sea glass and birdsong in a field of snow. These poems meditate on fragility and resilience, discovering the redemptive beauty in bones that know how to mend and skin that grows over wounds. Using images from the natural world, Nothing Left to Fix follows the determined tenderness of caregiving and the hope--like ""pinpricks of light"" in the night sky--that love transcends the failure of the body.

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In these clear-eyed and deeply felt poems, Jani Pearson tells the story of her father's slow death from a rare illness and its aftermath. Her poems transform pain and uncertainty: an x-ray of a broken hip becomes shards of opal pebbles and beach glass; a heart monitor becomes a chirping wren. Exploring the tender beauty in caregiving, the impossible lengths we'd travel for a remedy, and the way grief knocks us flat, Pearson carefully shepherds us through this heart-rending experience. I'm so glad for her voice, the company of her poems, and the way they make me catch my breath as they show me the light of love, of quiet joy, in the midst of sorrow. -Kathleen McGookey, author of Paper Sky Each delicate poem in this collection appears to be painted with a fine artist's brush. Pearson's precise and musical language turns the everyday familiar, often the sad and painful, into the exquisite. -Michael Mark, 2022 Rattle Chapbook Prize Winner

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January Pearson's poetry has appeared in Tahoma Literary Review, Calyx, Los Angeles Review, Notre Dame Review, and other publications. She lives in Southern California with her husband and two daughters.

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