Living with Haints - Georgia Popoff
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In these new poems of both “mastery” and “mystery,” Georgia A. Popoff, “witness to the natural order,” speaks of longing and regret with honesty and precision: “the ways a bed is carefully made / each morning to ward off any trace of intimacy.” Or, at times, doesn’t speak of such things: “what we don’t say / is our most tender history.” With humor, with a nod to “memory in all its chicanery,” Living with Haints offers sensual pleasures and memorable moments, as in the wonderful “Hindsight” with its punning title: “The men I loved were once so pretty… // Asses tight as their hearts. / And oh, their hair, their hair.” Doesn’t that “oh” hurt so good? Popoff is a poet of such modest and winning gestures.
—Michael Waters
2024ISBN 979-8-9853587-6-6$18.95Georgia A. Popoff is a writer, editor, arts-in-education specialist, and a program coordinator for the YMCA of Central NY’s Writers Voice, where she teaches poetry and creative nonfiction. The author of several previous books of poetry and nonfiction, Georgia was named Poet Laureate of Onondaga County, New York, in 2022. She is also the series editor for the University of Michigan Press Under Discussion book series on contemporary poets.
