Gleam
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (986 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1869407709 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 64 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-15 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
“A collection profoundly attuned to human mortality in which Sarah Broom unerringly conveys the joy of the material world. In lyric nets cast at a linguistic edge between life and death, land and sea, home and the world, she expresses the pleasure we take in things we do not own. These poems uncover in a catch of breath and heart what it means to hold on—and let go.” —Janet Charman, poet and author, Cold Snack
Broom’s forte is in encapsulating, expressing, and making sense of strong internal feeling and turmoil through metaphor, and in Gleam, her poems bring together heightened emotion, a robust sense of the physical body, and an external landscape in controlled, sinewy language. In these 40 powerful new poems, Sarah Broom explores the effect of a life-threatening condition by way of the landscapes of the natural world, charting the hardest things in beautiful language. In the title poem, she charts a radiotherapy session in both physical and metaphoric terms: “there are avenues of light / and now there is
Beautiful poetry This collection of poems is exquisite. The writing is raw, tender, inspired and evocative. I highly recommend this collection of poems.