No True Route - by Tim Conroy (Paperback)

About the Book

"A collection of poetry by one American author"--

Book Synopsis

The title of Tim Conroy's second book, No True Route, asks us to think about journeys in both time and space. Throughout the book, poems take up themes of movement, direction, detour, destination. And they take up those inevitable moments we pause and look back, asking how we got here, surveying those landscapes of time and family in loss in which nothing is static or reliable, especially memory.

Review Quotes

Review Quotes

Poetry at its best gives the head and heart direction. In No True Route, Tim Conroy sends us straightaway to his life's truths, as he feels them. Words bitter, sweet, brutal, and blunt -- but always beautifully spun, make this intensely personal and pathfinding work worthy of taking along on your own journey. -- J. Drew Lanham, author of Sparrow Envy - Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts

"How not to be a body / suspended alone" in poem after poem, Tim Conroy's No True Route investigates that state of potential isolation, of fatal disconnection narrowly avoided... this "rope knotted to adolescence," becomes for Conroy a life-line. "Do you recall the moment you first belonged?," he asks, and the question - amid these "oyster cuts of memory" - is satisfyingly both poignant and affirming. -- Nathalie Anderson, author of Held and Firmly Bound and Stain

Tim Conroy's second collection, No True Route, continues self-investigation from his past that began in his first book, Theologies of Terrain. Through personal and poetic journeys, the poems have gained more profound insights into the heaviness of life's burden and the possible ways to lightness. -- Miho Kinnas, author of Waiting for Sunset to Bury Red Camellias, Move Over, Bird, and Today, Fish Only.