Isn't Forever by Amy Key
PBS Wild Card Summer 2018
Books ’ —Kelvin Corcoran

’  —Kelvin Corcoran

Spanning thirty years and seven collections – from her first to her latest – this wide-reaching introduction celebrates a vital voice in contemporary European poetry

In the long concluding poem

Her voice revealing “unrelated things singing to themselves”

Isn't Forever by Amy Key <br><b> PBS Wild Card Summer 2018 </b></br> Books ’ —Kelvin CorcoranAmy Keys Isnt Forever is a grimoire for feminine selfhood in a world where a sense of self is flimsy, elusive and unrequited. The poems in this book are obsessive in their desire to construct and breach the terms of their own intimacy. The poems have their own narrative costume but are vexed with it, not quite able to master the diligence of having a body. This is a book where a tender and sabotaging shame of aloneness has taken root. Where wants