Melanie Power

Full Moon of Afraid and Craving (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A hometown is a data centre / where the past is storedFrom a darkly humorous perspective, this book charts a young person's navigation of narrow definitions of faith, femininity, and family.Confronting addiction, compulsions, and anxieties, Full Moon of Afraid and Craving explores the strange combination of wonder and longing that makes a life. Across settings rural and urban, Melanie Power's poems commemorate ordinary moments and everyday characters: a roadside shopkeeper, a neighbourhood linden tree, a great-uncle's hooch. Interrogating lineage and inheritance, she traces the unsettling shadows that border joy. A series of ambivalent odes pay a winking, Proustian homage to the sense memories of a Roman Catholic millennial upbringing in Newfoundland. The long poem "e;The Fever and the Fret,"e; written during pandemic lockdown in Montreal, considers how we re-examine and consolidate our personal and civic pasts in times of crisis, drawing timely parallels to John Keats's confinement due to illness exactly two centuries prior.At times wry and lighthearted, at others elegiac and plaintive, the voices in these poems are controlled and confident. Just as the stars in the sky are best viewed at night, this collection embraces darkness to illuminate rays of moonlight.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780228013389
• Artikelnr.: 72448963

Autorenporträt

Melanie Power is a Montreal-based writer from Newfoundland. Full Moon of Afraid and Craving is her first book.