One False Move

by Tim Conley

One False Move is Tim Conley's debut collection of poetry. As it tightropes along meaning in language, our understandings of, and relationships with, one another, and even our continued survival, it balances elegance with clumsiness, and disenchantment with unrepentant feeling. It is a book for the disenchanted, discombobulated and dissenting, for those who do not believe in wrong numbers, for those who render schematic diagrams on their ballots, for anyone stranded anywhere and for those who long to be stranded, for anyone who thinks that there are not just two sides to the question because questions do not have sides, for those who laugh and are lonely and still laugh because they can't help it.

Genres: Poetry

100 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2012

Reviews

[M.W.P.M. · Rating 4 out of 5]

riparian voice
brings it down

wash, all and
every is wash

down without
bottom, ritual

rilling milling
the water wheel

could be sad
washing always

always being
wash, all and
every is wash

- Metaphors Have No Plumbing, pg. 24

* * *

O
if
to
dis
en
tan
gle
your
true
blue
mind
youd
have
to
dis
conn
ect
me
would
you
?

- Overture, pg. 29

* * *

there may be fish
who can hold their breath
for hours at a stretch

- Who knows, pg. 35

[THE TORONTO QUARTERLY · Rating 4 out of 5]

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