Fragile July by Oscar Nearly
Broken Sleep Books
Fragile July by Oscar Nearly is a mesmeric, slow-burn excavation of memory, trauma, and domestic unreality, rendered through the porous, looping rhythms of prose poetry. Framed as a forensic reconstruction of a childhood summer, the text interweaves photographic description, childhood games, fragmentary scenes, and the ominous repetition of family motifs, digging, watching, swinging, with a precise, dissociative calm. Nearly's style is hallucinatory and deadpan, grounded in material detail yet resistant to linear resolution. What emerges is not confession but a kind of hauntological testimony: tender, obsessive, and quietly devastating in its study of interior collapse.
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