Exculpatory Lilies Poems by Susan Musgrave

Rocky007

10 MONTHS
10 MONTHS OF SERVICE
23,339
55
10
LEVEL 8 220 XP

450042638_cp6x2pru8ut3.jpg


Exculpatory Lilies Poems by Susan Musgrave | 1.66 MB
English | N/A Pages

Title: Exculpatory Lilies
Author: Susan Musgrave
Year: 2022​



Description:
A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book
From the award-winning poet known for her bracing honesty and sharp yet compassionate gaze, here is a new collection of poems that explore life, marriage, addiction, death, and heart-wrenching grief.

If grief is the willingness to be claimed by a story bigger than ourselves, Susan Musgrave writes, "in that / tender wavering, I let grief in."
"Writing about grief or tragedy is tricky. Hard to meet it at a heart-level without being effusive; hard to meet it at a brain-level without being cold. Hard not to make it about ourselves. Hard to meet it at a visceral level because it can take us out at the knees," wrote author Carrie Mac, responding to the death of Musgrave's partner, Stephen Reid, in 2018. Following this traumatic loss, in September 2021 their daughter, Sophie, died of an accidental overdose after a twenty-year struggle with addiction.
But to say this is a collection solely about grief would be...

DOWNLOAD:

 

60,659

Members

430,945

Threads

623,377

Posts
Newest Member
Back
Top