Prompted - Softcover

Inhaltsangabe

Your family asks about the gathering of ’05. Or a government letter arrives; after a decade of waiting, you receive identifying information plus a name for your birth mother, and you are compelled to invent a new circumstance, a new story. Or a friend urges you to revisit one of her favourite authors, or a workshop leader pushes you to try your hand at a sonnet or a ghazal. More often than not, we are all prompted. We are all just walking each other home.

What is prompted in Anne Archer’s new book is stirring, unsettling, and beautiful — loss of family, both known and unknown, memories of suburbia that remind one the prefix sub- means “under, or lower,” and gratitude for goodness that refuses to ignore darkness. “Just past Solstice, the lake booms / and sighs, the wind goes under water,” she writes. So too do her taut, tight lines of verse boom and sigh. They also go under, and give the reader chills.

—Chantel Lavoie, author, This Is about Angels, Women, and Men

Anne Archer is a musician whose collection Prompted dances us through doorways wide open as arms, where we meet her people, who could be our people — sturdy and sensible, and also ineffably wistful — into places we recognize, and places half-forgotten, where “great wings fold darkness like waves,” all the while sustaining notes of yearning, the plucked strings of sorrow and search, all the while pouring out a song of forgiveness to balm the heart.

—Callista Markotich, author, Wrap in a Big White Towel

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