Lyrebird

Literary Nonfiction. "Windows, mouths, buttonholes. Frames making use of an absence." LYREBIRD is a story of loss, told in fragments. It is the documentation of a miscarriage and the chronicle of the dissolution of a relationship--a moving discovery on how it is possible to approach a thing with tenderness and still watch it break. In this short lyrical memoir, Meredith Clark delves into light, memory, and the crushing absence of things not yet known.

"LYREBIRD slowly circles its heartbreak through understatement, poetic revelation, imagistic accord. It admits to its shortcomings gracefully, knows there is no way to write what cannot be undone."--Jenny Boully

"Loose with ghosts, absences, light, shadow, memory, time, and dreamwork, LYREBIRD's moving song is perforated with echoes and shards of our beautiful earth, our lost secrets, and the things for which we long and of which we let go."--Jennifer S. Cheng

"LYREBIRD conjures life from absence, and part of that conjuring means attending to the world around and beyond us... Meredith Clark has written a glowing portal that calls us through to wherever we need to go."--Steven Dunn