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Reliquary / Abigail Wender.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wender, Abigail, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (66 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Four Way Books, [2021]
- Summary:
- An introspective lyric on how the opiate crisis alters families and futuresIn her debut collection, Reliquary, Abigail Wender addresses losing a brother to prison and, ultimately, opiate addiction. The text also considers womanhood, motherhood, and marriage in lyric poems that confront the complicated nature of grief, the effects of illness on family, and how love-even bliss-figure into grief's equation. The collection suspends time, as the speaker weaves between flashbacks and the present, assembling fragments and vignettes of her childhood and marriage. In the book's moments of solace and interiority, such as in the poem, "Hiking, " Wender contemplates how to hold on and to what. In this particular poem's reflection on forgiveness, the speaker asks "Are there words for us, / high on an uppermost branch?, " and the collection responds with a resounding yes.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- I.
- A Room
- Ocean
- The Dark Sky
- At Shore's Edge
- Brother
- Flowers
- Room With Map
- Barn Swallow
- The Other Branch
- If I Remember Correctly
- Mountain
- Deliverance Dream
- Lucky
- After Goethe's "Erl-King"
- Stone Lion
- II.
- A Blessing
- Auguries
- Reading Montaigne, (How to Live)
- III.
- Via Negativa
- Reading Basho (What I Call His "Drinking" Songs)
- Sing Sing
- Sister
- Boy
- Harvest
- Afterimage
- First Snow
- Hiking
- Dear X Chromosome
- Is There a Certainty of It?
- IV.
- After Daniel Chester French's Angel of Death Staying the Hand of the Young Sculptor
- Yahrzeit
- Leveraged Hearts
- Transit
- Sri Lanka
- Temple of the Relic
- Fable
- Postcolonial
- Days of Cinnamon Gardens
- At Night
- Translation
- Brother Again
- Mother
- Headstone
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
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