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A series of poems that explores walking, writing, and making as divinatory practices.
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Documenting (and interrogating) the poet’s daily walks, Which Walks investigates the twin practices of walking and art-making while aging. Intensely feminist, Moriarty’s book relates to the endlessly unfinished journeys of Nathaniel Mackey’s long poems, as well as to the dailiness of many writers from Charles Baudelaire to Robert Creeley. These poems are an extension of the author’s visual practice, which she is returning to after a fifty-year break. Here she succeeds in existing—even thriving—in today’s strange, often terrifying, world.
“We age as we see; we see in our aging all we have done—all we have made, all we have read, everyone we have known—and it’s this seeing that moves us in and through and out beyond the world. Laura Moriarty’s Which Walks proves it. This is a profound and intimate study of being with at a crucial time where many feel without. A book (and a way to love) that we need.”
This is a book of attention, of poems composed across a meditative, thinking space, set purposefully and perpetually in the present moment; a book of and around time, both the movement of such and its seeming immobility, a continuous present, offering echoes, even ripples, of time.