a.j. carruthers, Axis Book 2 married people speak wordlessly in

married people speak wordlessly in airconditioned rooms

and immigrated to the United States as a teen

explorations of the meaning of suffering—these scrupulous and attentive poems show affinities with Francis Webb and Thomas Merton

but also as an uncompromising reminder of what she called ‘the value’ of Rowe’s critical attention: ‘a habit of attention to words

sometimes sad

a.j. carruthers, Axis Book 2 married people speak wordlessly inThe facts: AXIS Book 2 follows from AXIS Book 1: Areal as the second installment of my lifelong long poem. Written mostly on an ACER Aspire S 13 computer between 2015 and 2019, Book 2 is made of 3 microbooks Blazar, Chorastics, Disk & comprises 30 poems in total. Blazars; black hole objects with jet axes pointing towards earth. Chorastics; a chorus, a human cluster. Disk; the shape of some galaxies but also a compact storage device. Each microbook;