A life lived with melancholy, its spikes, its other rhythms, its insistence. In the end, when we learn this part of us is part of us, is not our enemy, when we live long enough to eschew fear of judgments
social, medical, personal
eschew the idea of 'normal' and the label of 'well', what can these undercurrents of sadness teach us.
These lyric poems, written over a decade, don't attempt answers. They emerge from observation, reflection and re-imagining, from the desire to make peace with the self, beloveds, the past. In doing so, they ask if there are other emergent possibilities
when we live with sadness that will not be banished, sadness that for the narrator of these poems is as inescapable as the earth on which she stands or the air she breathes.
By:
Marcella Polain Imprint: Puncher & Wattman Country of Publication: Australia Dimensions:
Height: 210mm,
Width: 148mm,
ISBN:9781922571540 ISBN 10: 1922571547 Pages: 92 Publication Date:01 September 2023 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
