The Nick of Time Samuel Beckett with new essays by Mónica

with new essays by Mónica de la Torre

in a poetic form that approaches opposite extremes of material immediacy and evanescence

It was a matter of pacing delicious cycles without hangovers

'In simple

though sometimes written as prose

The Nick of Time Samuel Beckett with new essays by MónicaRosmarie Waldrop If memory serves, it was five years ago that yours began to refuse, Rosmarie Waldrop writes to her husband in The Nick of Time. Does it feel like crossing from an open field into the woods, the sunlight suddenly switched off? Or like a roof without edge or frame, pushed sideways in time? Ten years in the making, Waldrops phenomenally beautiful new collection explores the felt nature of existence as well as gravity and velocity, the