Five Fifty-Five Av Maura Dooley

<p><b><i>Five Fifty-Five</i> is a book of quizzical poems concerned with time and mortality which ask fundamental questions about our lives, such as <i>Where have you gone?</i> and <i>Who were you anyway? </i></b>In her first new collection since <i>The Silvering</i> (2016), Maura Dooley tries to find out through conversations with, among others, Louisa M. Alcott, Hokusai, Jane Austen, Buzz Aldrin, Anne Tyler and the Great Uncle and Grandfather she never knew. </p><p>There are poems, too, about the difficulties and responsibilities of translation, both from the written word and in interpreting what is left unspoken in different kinds of absence; empty streams, bare trees, the loss of friends. Yet these are poems that find and try to offer consolation.</p><p></p>