After two years in an intense relationship that breaks apart, Kristen E. Nelson is left to pick up the pieces. In the absence of her lover, she imagines, she collects impassioned break-up stories from friends, and she writes. In the Away Time is an evocative book of epistolary prose poems that attempt to confront, process, and reanimate the dead relationship over a six-month period of the aftermath. Through time and space, these intimate lyric vignettes construct a lush, immersive, and devastating portrait of queer desire and longing grounded in the specificity of one lived experience.
