The Details Will Be Gone Soon

Through a series of flash narratives, Kathryn Silver-Hajo’s powerful debut story collection, Wolfsong, draws us irresistibly into the lives of a constellation of female characters. The girls and women of Wolfsong are by turns fierce, curious, playful, vulnerable, reflective and wise. Taken together, the stories form a compelling arc from the innocent explorations of childhood, through budding growth, maturation, and the sometimes-fraught journeys women undertake as they forge their unique places in the world. Silver-Hajo’s characters uncover lifelong secrets and mysteries, face danger and uncertainty, celebrate what they’ve achieved and mourn what is lost. They love, yearn, cope with hardship, and discover how to take up the space in the world they deserve and have earned. The women of Silver-Hajo’s Wolfsong will remain with readers long after the last page of this stunning collection is turned.

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In clear and moving poems, Jeremy Jusek’s The Details Will Be Gone Soon chronicles the loss of his grandmother to Alzheimer’s. The poems record the beloved acts, objects, and memories connecting the narrator and grandmother—a quilt with roses, a lesson in making soup, a love of books. “A book to her/was a lighthouse/piercing society’s fog,” writes Jusek. The poems also explore the toll taken on the family: frustration, anger, and sorrow, and the acknowledgement of mortality. This is a very poignant story and a book with a worthy purpose: All proceeds from the book will be donated to the Alzheimer’s Association.

– Lynn Emanuel, author of The Nerve of It: Poems New and Selected (Winner of 2016 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize) and Noose and Hook

Parma Poet Laureate Jeremy Jusek’s The Details Will Be Gone Soon is an honest, well-crafted, poignant, and extraordinarily moving account of his experience navigating his grandmother’s Alzheimer’s journey. Without a doubt, it is the best poetry collection on this topic that I have come across and I highly recommend it.

–John Burroughs, U.S. Beat Poet Laureate 2022-23 and author of The Wrest of the Worthwhile

Poet Jeremy Jusek is privy to a secret we hope you don’t learn for yourself. Dementia erases not only the memory of those so afflicted, but also that of the ones who love them. We forget who they were. The Details Will Be Gone Soon is testimony against that forgetting. By turns a deceptively straightforward accounting of a life and a demise, and a portrait more akin to the impressionist and surrealist works the poet’s Nana loved, which “makes the third-person more personable/ and terrifying horrors artistic.” The poems are spoken both in the voice of grandmother and grandson and are a weaving together of past and present, of what is given and what is lost. “This woman taught me nuance,” the poet writes, and she taught him well.

–Pauletta Hansel, author of Palindrome (Weatherford Award, 2017); Cincinnati’s first Poet Laureate, 2016-2018

About the Author

Jeremy Jusek is the poet laureate of Parma, Ohio (’22-’23). He earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Arcadia University and chemistry/theatre degrees from Marietta College. He has authored more than a half-dozen plays and three poetry collections: We Grow Tomatoes in Tiny Towns (Unsolicited Press, 2019), The Less-Traveled Street (Maverick Duck Press, 2022), and The Details Will Be Gone Soon (ELJ Editions, 2023). He hosts the Ohio Poetry Association’s podcast Poetry Spotlight, has run the West Side Poetry Workshop he founded in 2015, and is president of the Flamingo Writers’ Guild. He also established a poetry and playwriting fellowship at Marietta College, which is in its third year. Jeremy teaches English and writing at Notre Dame College. To learn more, please visit www.jeremyjusek.com.

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