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2019
A Poetry Collection by CS Parker
The calm before the storm had its own kind of chaos.
Before the masks, before the headlines screamed of shutdowns and distance, there was 2019-a year brimming with contradictions, quiet upheavals, and the subtle unraveling of what we thought was normal. In this hauntingly prescient collection, CS Parker revisits the final year of a world we'd soon lose, capturing its beauty, its brokenness, and its blind optimism.
2019 explores the rise of youth activism, the fires that raged through the Amazon and Australia, the whispered panic of a warming planet, and the disconnection hiding behind constant connection. These poems move between intimate and global, political and deeply personal-meditations on identity, movement, protest, love, and the strange static hum of prelude.
Parker writes with a clarity that cuts through comfort and asks: What were we pretending not to see?
Lyrical, observant, and quietly urgent, 2019 is the poetic echo of a year that carried more weight than we realized at the time. It is memory wrapped in metaphor, a farewell letter to the last "normal" year.
A Poetry Collection by CS Parker
The calm before the storm had its own kind of chaos.
Before the masks, before the headlines screamed of shutdowns and distance, there was 2019-a year brimming with contradictions, quiet upheavals, and the subtle unraveling of what we thought was normal. In this hauntingly prescient collection, CS Parker revisits the final year of a world we'd soon lose, capturing its beauty, its brokenness, and its blind optimism.
2019 explores the rise of youth activism, the fires that raged through the Amazon and Australia, the whispered panic of a warming planet, and the disconnection hiding behind constant connection. These poems move between intimate and global, political and deeply personal-meditations on identity, movement, protest, love, and the strange static hum of prelude.
Parker writes with a clarity that cuts through comfort and asks: What were we pretending not to see?
Lyrical, observant, and quietly urgent, 2019 is the poetic echo of a year that carried more weight than we realized at the time. It is memory wrapped in metaphor, a farewell letter to the last "normal" year.