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Graywolf Press
May 2013
On Sale: May 7, 2013
88 pages
ISBN: 1555976417
EAN: 9781555976415
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Fiction Poetry
I took care of myself. I took care
Of myself, thinking
much too often
I took care of someone
else.
Everything feels like
payment.
—from “Pay Attention”
In The Exchange, Sophie
Cabot Black explores the surprising interplay between
mortality and money, between the next world and this one,
between the language of disease and the language of finance.
Following a beloved friend through a long illness and
eventual loss, these poems confront in stark emotion the
aftermath, even as the outside world—the world of debts paid
and collected, of power and dominion—intrudes. What is
gained and what is sacrificed, and how can those profits and
losses be measured when the currency involved is love?
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