The Blessing of Dark Water Contributor(s): Lyons, Elizabeth (Author) |
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ISBN: 1938584333 ISBN-13: 9781938584336 Publisher: Alice James Books
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: April 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Women Authors - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss |
Dewey: 811.6 |
LCCN: 2016046097 |
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.5" W x 8.3" L (0.30 lbs) 100 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Death/Dying |
Features: Price on Product |
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 03/27/2017 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: These poems are infused with contradiction: discovery and pain, blood and healing. Ultimately, The Blessing of Dark Water is wrenching in its investigation of the artistic urge as tempered by the transformative power of suffering.--Amy Quan Barry Lyons's debut, The Blessing of Dark Water, highlights the exquisite pain and terrible happiness of mental illness by invoking the voice and perspective of American artist, Walter Inglis Anderson, who struggled with bipolar depression and psychotic episodes. These poems grapple with the suffering and secrecy of invisible illness, and the aching struggle for a simple human connection within the complexities. How All Things are Managed They call it a falling into death. Two dogs are shot into my vein. Remember: thou art dust. If I am lucky, there is only the darkness, Perhaps a fracture, If the illness in your brain is brutal, Elizabeth Lyons holds an MFA from Purdue University and is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Houston. Her poems have appeared in Tin House, Indiana Review, New South, and Salt Hill. A recipient of fellowships and prizes from the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, Vermont Studio Center, the I-Park Foundation, and the Academy of American Poets, she lives in Houston, TX. |
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