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The crying book / Heather Christle.
LIBRA PS3603.H755 C79 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Christle, Heather, 1980- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tears.
- Crying.
- American poetry--21st century.
- American poetry.
- Poetry, Modern--21st century.
- Poetry, Modern.
- Poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 200 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Catapult, [2019]
- Summary:
- Award-winning poet Heather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and must reckon with her own struggles with depression and the birth of her first child. How she faces her joy, grief, anxiety, impending motherhood, and conflicted truce with the world results in a moving meditation on the nature, rapture, and perils of crying--from the history of tear-catching gadgets (including the woman who designed a gun that shoots tears) to the science behind animal tears (including moths who drink them) to the fraught role of white women's tears in racist violence.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-200).
- ISBN:
- 1948226448
- 9781948226448
- OCLC:
- 1085216139
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