| Description |
1 online resource (95 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Ashes are Bone and Dust; Ancient History; Really Dead This Time; Suspension While Moving; Discomfort; Sanguine; The Dress; At Austin's Funeral Home; Neck; Identifying Death's Perfume; Her Hands; Rose Detail in Green Daylight; Three Times in Our Lives; Floral Tribute; A Visitor Named Memory; Last Days; Hierarchy; Mixing Ashes; Ashes are Bone and Dust; Horningsham; The Dead in My Dreams; Voices from Beyond I; Voices from Beyond II; What happened after the photograph was taken; Evening in Paris; Carpenter; Four Years of Census; Full Moon Family History; Laid out at St. Mark's; Holiday; Orange |
| Summary |
Jill Battson, whose first book of poems, Hard Candy, shook the poetry establishment by its well-starched neck, is back with a second breathtaking collection of lyric and elegiac poems. These are poems that are not afraid to name real people and real places, poems that revel in the relationships that make our lives, in the end, worth living. Ashes Are Bone and Dust maps the way through grief and recovery. The poems -- sensual, disturbing and probing -- document Battson's parents' death and the aftermath that loss leaves behind. They also address the process of recovery, pulling heavily on the journey for discovery both tangible and emotional. Battson's poems are raw and beautiful, difficult and flowing, intensely evocative and imbued with the language and imagery of sex |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Loss (Psychology) -- Poetry
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Canadian poetry.
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Canadian poetry
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Loss (Psychology)
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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e-books.
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Poetry
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Livres numériques.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1897414722 |
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9781897414729 |
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9781894663045 |
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1894663047 |
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1895837022 |
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9781895837025 |
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