A Cluster of Noisy Planets

by Charles Rafferty

Charles Rafferty's latest collection of prose poems turns philosophical. In A Cluster of Noisy Planets , Rafferty captures the rhythms and patterns of life as a lover, father, and poet, distilling each moment to its essence and grounding them collectively in the wider perspective of a changing world, the constant turning of the stars and the changing seasons of the New England countryside. With a knowing nod to the passage of time-day to day, year to year, epoch to epoch-these lyrical poems form a record of the profound, ephemeral joys, losses, and echoes of commonplace moments.

Genres: Poetry

82 pages, Hardcover

Published October 5, 2021

About the author

Charles Rafferty is a poet, editor, and director of the MFA program at Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, Connecticut. He graduated from Richard Stockton College of New Jersey with a B.A. in Literature and Language, and later received an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Arkansas. He has published four books of poetry along with several chapbooks, had his work published in The New Yorker and RATTLE, and in 2009 received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship.

Reviews

[Emily · Rating 4 out of 5]

These poems are beautiful and thought provoking. Some are funny, most make you consider time, how small we are in the universe, and how humans are wrecking the planet. Made me want to write some prose poetry of my own.

[Liv · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5