Heather Christle
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Language
English
Description
"Award-winning poet Heather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and must reckon with her own struggles with depression and the birth of her first child. How she faces her joy, grief, anxiety, impending motherhood, and conflicted truce with the world results in a moving meditation on the nature, rapture, and perils of crying--from the history of tear-catching gadgets (including the woman who designed a gun that shoots tears) to the science...
Author
Language
Español
Description
"Se dice que quizá lloramos cuando fracasa el lenguaje, cuando las palabras ya no pueden transmitir adecuadamente nuestro dolor".
La poeta Heather Christle desvela la historia íntima de sus lágrimas -desde el suicidio de un amigo hasta sus embarazos o la historia de depresión en su familia- para desentrañar las razones biológicas del llanto e investigar su influencia en el arte, la cultura y el feminismo.
En estas páginas Christle nos descubre...
Author
Series
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Poems stunned by the world and their presence in it. Inspired by a voracious curiosity about humans and other subjects, the poems in this collection describe and invent worlds in an attempt to understand through participation. The book draws upon the wisdom of foolishness and the logic of glee, while simultaneously exploring the suffering inherent to embodied consciousness. Speakers play out moments of bravado and fear, love and mortality, disappointment...
