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Shake Until Cloudy
A collection of progressively lengthy poems that tenderly perpend life's attendant existential concerns
In her fourth collection of poems, Shake Until Cloudy, Oakland-based writer Amanda Nadelberg returns with a unique sense of humor, readjusting the commonplace from an angle that will inspire wonder in her readers. The book begins with a series of incisive micro-poems, some of which can be recited in a single breath, then leads to longer meditations on love, relationships, personhood and the desire for new beginnings. Filled with tenderness, Nadelberg asks hugely complicated questions of her life that shock with their ostensible simplicity—"Faces appeared in fragments / I didn't remember how to go / going through the world / being who you are." With Shake Until Cloudy, Nadelberg's deft new poems re-create the sway of life: rhythmical, emotional and full of feeling.
In her fourth collection of poems, Shake Until Cloudy, Oakland-based writer Amanda Nadelberg returns with a unique sense of humor, readjusting the commonplace from an angle that will inspire wonder in her readers. The book begins with a series of incisive micro-poems, some of which can be recited in a single breath, then leads to longer meditations on love, relationships, personhood and the desire for new beginnings. Filled with tenderness, Nadelberg asks hugely complicated questions of her life that shock with their ostensible simplicity—"Faces appeared in fragments / I didn't remember how to go / going through the world / being who you are." With Shake Until Cloudy, Nadelberg's deft new poems re-create the sway of life: rhythmical, emotional and full of feeling.
- GenresPoetry
90 pages, Paperback
Published April 21, 2026
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