Got There: Poems on Vanishing

Praise for Darren C. Demaree

“In Darren C. Demaree’s Got There: Poems on Vanishing, the title implies arrival, but the poems are a journey, each one traveling to bring the speaker closer to rest, each one ending with a plea just to be.”
– Donna Vorreyer, author of Unrivered

“A slice of cake sitting perfectly on a plate, a heavy question hanging unanswered, a breath full of memories, the blue feathers on the belly of the world, the perfection of milk and honey and morning together—it’s all here, right in reach and waiting to be consumed.”
– Jack B. Bedell, author of Ghost Forest

“Demaree invents a form which ends with a shifting refrain: ‘Be time with me.’ ‘Be the first step away with me.’ ‘Be real salt with me.’ The result is a linked series rife with uncertainties, absences, blooms, and burials. One feels compelled to sing each final refrain aloud, in harmony with other lost souls. Be known with me.”
– Erica Reid, author of Ghost Man on Second