Meghan O'Rourke: Once, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Klappentext

These poems are shadowed by illness, both civic and personal, and by the mysterious currents of grief. What emerges over the course of the volume is a meditation not only on a daughter's relationship with her mother but also on a citizen's to her nation. Throughout, Once examines the forces that shape war, divorce, and death, exploring personal culpability and charting uncertain new beginnings as the speakers seek to build homes in a shattered land and find whole selves amid broken, thwarted relationships.

from "Frontier"

. . . At times,

I felt sick, intoxicated

by BPA and mercury.

At other times I fasted and the stars

stumbled clear from the vault.

Up there, the universe stands around drunk.

I hope the Lord is kind to us,

for we engrave our every mistake . . .