How to Maintain Eye Contact Phil Kaye a father tending a fire—and

a father tending a fire—and utterly unflinching

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How to Maintain Eye Contact Phil Kaye a father tending a fire—andRobert Wood Lynn, 2023 Set in three sections, Robert Wood Lynn explores interior uncertainty, interpersonal uncertainty and uncertainty at a larger scale. These narrative poems, influenced by storytelling traditions, find themselves at the nexus of the intimate and the humorous, as well as the absurd and the tragic. These poems examine isolation and grief in their many formsthrough heartbreak or the death of loved ones, or show us the world looking