Massachusetts Statewide Poetry Calendar

Join Lily Poetry Review Books as we celebrate Eric Hyett's Aporia with special guest interviewer, Heather Nelson. In Aporia, the debut poetry collection by Eric E. Hyett, the poet struggles with a psychic predicament: how to guide his mother (poet Barbara Helfgott Hyett) through the ravages of early-phase Alzheimer’s Disease, while preserving both her dignity and her literary legacy. Organized chronologically to span exactly one year, the poems in Aporia recount a balletic narrative between the speaker and his mother, both of them trying to understand what has happened. Over the course of the year, what started out as shock gives way to grief, as both Hyett and his mother begin to move toward acceptance.