And In Our Absence
$19.99
“I tune in, but you’re static on an empty channel.”
And In Our Absence gathers six of Williamson’s poetry micro-books into one square volume, paired with all-new art by the author. Every poem fits on a single page.
The six books
- Alchemy of Beauty: love soured by myth. Sappho’s laughter, a curated storm, snuffs out love’s last breath, and autumn whispers in on Persephone, uninvited.
- Ephemeral Decay: beauty gone to rot. An odalisque reclines in a crumbling gallery, and rainbows dance in oil spills.
- Ghost of Memory: memory wearing away. Each gaze erodes your features the way wind sculpts stone.
- Namaste_FatalError: love in the machine. A touch passes straight through a hologram, and two hearts in binary sum to a void.
- Screams in Starlight: the end of everything, recorded by experts. An astronomer engraves dying constellations, and geologists sift the ash of a hushed Earth.
- Tiny Book of Mini-Deaths: the small losses of every day. Empty beds and vacant chairs, and clock hands that make each lost moment heavier than the last.
For readers of Louise Glück’s Averno, Stephen Crane’s The Black Riders, and Leonard Cohen’s Book of Longing.
From the book
You whisper, “I love you”
under breath, and under shirt
the knife’s plunge and twist,
our beautiful demise.
The edition
95-page square paperback. 120# McCoy Silk cover, 100# Sterling Silk interior.
The poetry of Eric Williamson
This Is Our Secret, What Of Us Remains, Where Silence Keeps You, And In Our Absence, and Before We Weren’t Anywhere. Read the titles in order and they follow one love, from the secret, to the empty room, to before any of it began.