How To Age

by C. A. Singh

In poems that pulse with longing, violence, and strange tenderness, How To Age moves through a disorienting lapse of time in which memory, intimacy, and trauma are precariously wound together. The collection is both isolating and smothering, calling upon dreams, music, fleeting memories, and raw exorcisms of emotion. Caught between childhood and something much older, between the need to remember and the urge to forget, these poems refuse easy resolution. Instead, they settle in a space where growing up doesn't mean leaving anything behind and the past refuses to stay buried. This is not a memoir and should not be read as a direct retelling of real events. Content warnings include: sexual assault, animal death, self-harm, horror, and substance abuse. C.A. Singh is the author of a previous collection titled My Body and I Share the Same Name and lives and writes in Nebraska.

60 pages, Paperback

Published April 1, 2025

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I wrote this book. I wish I had been more careful with it. There are already things about it I want to change. But it does what it does, I think. I think it does something.