Bad HobbyAuthor :
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Published : Thursday 27 October 2022
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From Kingsley Tufts Award finalist Kathy Fagan comes Bad Hobby, a perceptive collection focused on memory, class, and might-have-beens. In a working-class family that considers sensitivity a â?ofatal diagnosis,â?? how does a child grow up to be a poet? What happens when a body â?omeant to bend & breedâ?? opts not to, then finds itself performing the labor of care regardless? Why do we think our â?ocommon griefsâ?? so singular? Bad Hobby is a hard-earned meditation on questions like theseâ?"a dreamscape speckled with swans, ghosts, and weather updates. Fagan writes with a kind of practical empathy, lamenting pain and brutality while knowing, also, their inevitability. A dementing father, a squirrel limp in the talons of a hawk, a â?ochild who wonâ?Tt ever get bornâ??: with age, Fagan posits, the impact of ordeals like these changes. Loss becomes instructive. Solitude becomes a shared experience. â?oYou think your one life preciousâ?"â??And Bad Hobby thinksâ?"hard. About lineage, about caregiving. About time. It paces â?oinside its head, gazing skyward for a noun or phrase to / shatter the glass of our locked cars & save us.â?? And it does want to save us, or at least lift us, even in the face of immense bleakness, or loneliness, or the body changing, failing. â?oDonâ?Tt worry, baby,â?? Fagan tells us, the sparrow at her window. â?oWeâ?Tre okay.â??
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