| The Migratory Moment: Everything, anything - Nothing at all... Contributor(s): Swenson, Marnie Holt (Author), Worth, David (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1942661843 ISBN-13: 9781942661849 Publisher: Kitsap Publishing OUR PRICE: $31.46 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Psychopathology - Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (ptsd) - Self-help | Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (ptsd) - Family & Relationships | Abuse - Child Abuse |
| Physical Information: 0.38" H x 6" W x 9" (0.68 lbs) 80 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Migratory Moment by Marnie Holt Swenson is a hybrid book of poetry, dialogue, and paintings that examines an anguished speaker's view of her origins through memories. Vernacular and fractured lines sift truth from fiction, creating a moving, erratic portrait of fragility and loss that spirals into "a puzzle I cannot solve." Whether the titular moment refers to the speaker's sense of time on earth, the desire for light from a destabilized world, or an implosion that results in being remade, this is a work of sustained, raw intensity. Survival becomes art. The book navigates between the story of a woman who believes herself to have been an unwanted birth, "a thing of despair"; the confusion of family relationships; a father's suicide; and questions from a therapist. As the speaker confronts her own past, spiritual ambivalence and childhood scenes weave together in a dark pastiche. A series of oil paintings reveal the story in an oblique way. Karen Rigby, Foreword Reviews |