HOW ABSENCE by Rachel Moritz

'How Absence began as a series of poems written in the first years of my son's life. My son began as an idea, he was a process I undertook “to have a baby,” then a product of my body, then he was himself.'

- Rachel Moritz

The poems in How Absence, like shards of pale pottery from an archaeological dig, tell us about what time does to human beings: all we are, all we make and do, and how it falls into dust. But Moritz, in the face of time, offers us not despair but the mercy of genetics and the terrible beauty of the fine line between the born and the dying.

MIEL was established in 2011 to publish difficult, innovative, intelligent, and deeply felt writing and artwork, with a focus on work made by women, people of color, and LGBTQ people.

Published by MIEL
Numbered edition of 120
26 pages
125 x 220 mm