Kelly Donika - The Renunciations Poems - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: An extraordinary collection of endurance and transformation by the award - winning author of Bestiary The Renunciations is a book of resilience survival and the journey to radically shift one's sense of self in the face of trauma. Moving between a childhood marked by love and abuse and the breaking marriage of that adult child Donika Kelly charts memory and the body as landscapes to be traversed and tended. These poems construct life rafts and sanctuaries even in their most devastating confrontations with what a person can bear with how families harm themselves. With the companionship of the oracle an observer of memory who knows how each close call with oblivion ends the act of remembrance becomes curative and personal mythologies give way to a future defined less by wounds than by possibility. In this gorgeous and heartrending second collection we find the home one builds inside oneself after reckoning with a legacy of trauma a home whose construction starts with a razing.
Title: The Renunciations Poems
Author(s): Kelly Donika
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Barcode: 9781644450536
Pages: 72 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 5/4/2021
Category: Poetry By Individual Poets