How to Maintain Eye Contact Phil Kaye Ollie never lets the reader

Ollie never lets the reader slip into the easy sadness of cliche - instead they guide us through the realities and contradictions of losing someone you love and of death - reminding us that they need not be one and the same

National Youth Poet Laureate

we are alive

and the death of a loved one

Blue Oyster Cult

How to Maintain Eye Contact Phil Kaye Ollie never lets the readerRobert Wood Lynn, 2023 Set in three sections, Robert Wood Lynn explores interior uncertainty, interpersonal uncertainty and uncertainty at a larger scale. These narrative poems, influenced by storytelling traditions, find themselves at the nexus of the intimate and the humorous, as well as the absurd and the tragic. These poems examine isolation and grief in their many formsthrough heartbreak or the death of loved ones, or show us the world looking