As Best We Can
As Best We Can As Best We Can, Jeffrey Wainwright's seventh collection, marks a change of key for the poet. They listen to what dreams have to tell, and (with humour underwriting their concentration)…
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As Best We Can
As Best We Can, Jeffrey Wainwright's seventh collection, marks a change of key for the poet. They listen to what dreams have to tell, and (with humour underwriting their concentration) they worry at the labour and release of creative work. After the elegiac tone of The Reasoner (2016), the poems and sequences included here settle for the poet's present world.
The rendering of simple elements in 'The Window-Ledge', without commentary, is among his most lucid and radical poems. As always in Wainwright, history - personal and political - is alive in the present. By effacing the 'I' he shares experience most fully with the reader, making and sharing a
We Can Overcome
As We Forgive
As We Fall
Steal as Much as You Can
We Can Do It!
All We Can Save
We Can Get Dressed
Until We Can Forgive
We Can See You
As Long As We Keep Moving
As Long As We´re Together
Catch As Catch Can
Catch As Cat Can
Catch as Catch Can
Hard as You Can