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Cast Your Longest Shadow
By Jad Josey
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Praise for Jad Josey's Cast Your Longest Shadow
With gut-wrenching perception, Jad Josey's Cast Your Longest Shadow meets the ideal purpose of a chapbook: to focus the consciousness of a speaker bearing with raw honesty upon a unified subject. For a remarkably moving experience, I highly recommend that readers absorb the whole book in one sitting. In an exceptional sequence of stand-alone poems, Josey renders the existential displacement of an individual whose life has been rent by the sudden reality of lost love. Classic, universal, sharply contemporary, and formally surprising, these whip-smart, keenly imagined poems rise out of a breached mire to produce a blues verse that enthralls.
-Kevin Clark, author of The Consecrations and Self-Portrait with Expletives
"I've learned not to be haunted... in the between spaces" Jad Josey writes in Cast Your Longest Shadow, a book which flings itself simultaneously into lived-in images of nature and the narrator's ever-expanding interiority. Here, every poem is a "between space" built from liminality, love, and loam, a place where feeling brushes up against the stars only to then plummet into the ocean to glide alongside an ancient shark. While it is impossible to squeeze everything into a poem, in these perfectly-crafted lines, Josey has certainly come close. "When you have / nothing left, you still have / everything you carry."
-Todd Dillard, author of Ways We Vanish
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
34
Release Date:
2026-02-05
Publication Date:
2026-02-06
Publisher:
Chestnut Review LLC
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1965158188
ISBN13:
9781965158180
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Weight:
67 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
2 cm
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