the end of the world is not always quite as lonely as we think.
PRAISE FOR "ELECTRIC INFINITIES"
In a voice both honeyed yet unsparing, Ashley Cline’s "electric infinities" leads us to the end of the world. Uninterested in offering platitudes to those seeking solid ground on a planet of such uncertain terrain, Cline instead makes a gift of companionship, a promise that “we’ll slow dance in/to / the end.” One finds, in these poems, not the weak pulse of a fading heart but a determination “to bring the color back to earth.”
—Katrina Smolinsky
At first and second and third meeting, Ashley Cline’s "electric infinities" sparks in your fingertips. A field guide for the end of the world, Cline expertly builds a space of precarious wildness to remind you: we are fragile incarnate. And yet, despite this, we are a letter to infinity, chosen again & again. Fireproof.
—Madeleine Corley: Poet, Editor, Songwriter
In "electric infinities," Ashley Cline writes poems that wonder: about what will be left at the end of the world, and what's worth keeping. With utmost care, Cline's poems seek to illuminate the loneliness at the end by showing us all-of-the-enough we were all along.
—Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes, author of Ashley Sugarnotch & the Wolf (Mason Jar Press, 2020)