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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: renunciations
    sub title: poems
  name:
    name part: Kelly, Donika
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mnu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 94 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: The Renunciations is a book of resilience, survival and the journey to radically shift one's sense of self in the face of trauma. Moving between a childhood marked by love and abuse and the breaking marriage of that adult child, Donika Kelly charts memory and the body as landscapes to be traversed and tended. These poems construct life rafts and sanctuaries even in their most devastating confrontations with what a person can bear, with how families harm themselves. With the companionship of "the oracle," an observer of memory who knows how each close call with oblivion ends the act of remembrance becomes curative, and personal mythologies give way to a future defined less by wounds than by possibility. In this gorgeous and heartrending second collection, we find the home one builds inside oneself after reckoning with a legacy of trauma, a home whose construction starts "with a razing."
  table of contents: House of air, hours of fire -- Now -- Then -- Now -- Now-Then -- Now -- After.
  note: Donika Kelly.
  note: Poetry browsing collection : gift of Eleanor Weinbaum family.
  subject:
    topic: American poetry
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    topic: American poetry
    topic: African American authors
  classification: 811/.6
  identifier: 1644450534
  identifier: 9781644450536
  identifier: 2020944389
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 200808
    record change date: 20211018102250.0
    record identifier: in00004417602