In this issue of Cider Press Review, we perseverate on generational conversations—floating between what is past, what is present, and into the liminality of living and of lostness. In “Memory #2,” Anne Lucas contemplates the memories which precede us: “We remember the trauma of elders / on the cellular level. We know all / our parents experienced before us.” Meanwhile, P.J. Sutton unveils the thinness that stretches between lives in “Lazarus Days,” writing, “I wake up floating on the door to a sacred cabin / that I will never open again. // I wake up floating on a piano key. // I wake up wearing the life jacket / of your voice.” And in “Trace,” Susan Michele Coronel rebuilds and reconnects: “drifting apart until I could barely recognize them. Her father // bought her a phone without my consent, then invited her / to move into his house. The game was rigged. I ask myself daily, // Why was I a silent pillar of salt? My daughter and I talk.”
Additional to the poets highlighted above, Vol. 27, Issue 5 includes poems by Becky Kennedy, Ryan McCarty, Margot Wizansky, Angela Lake, Kari Gunter-Seymour, Emily Updegraff, Patricia Hemminger, Deidre Lockwood, Niki Chalkiadaki, Genevieve Creedon, Kendra Ralston, Phillip Sterling, Steve McDonald, Clyde Kressler, and Joanie Strangeland.
