The Nick of Time Samuel Beckett in a process of listening

in a process of listening that's both a 'pledge of silence' and the recognition that 'we come to a limit and stop where it fits

though sometimes written as prose

like Joseph Conrad

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

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The Nick of Time Samuel Beckett in a process of listeningRosmarie 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