Soft inheritance /
Fawn Parker meditates on grief, illness and the open-handed relationship between material objects and memory. Written after her mother was diagnosed with cancer, Soft Inheritance follows the poet's rapidly evolving reality where kindness is a scar, though not all scar-makers are kind. Both a tr...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Windsor, Ontario :
Palimpsest Press ; Anstruther Books,
[2023].
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| Summary: | Fawn Parker meditates on grief, illness and the open-handed relationship between material objects and memory. Written after her mother was diagnosed with cancer, Soft Inheritance follows the poet's rapidly evolving reality where kindness is a scar, though not all scar-makers are kind. Both a treatise on the sick body and the state of after, post-caretaking, post-breakup, post-moving and post-death, these poems question what is inherited, and ask what can safely be left behind. A diamond ring? A cancerous gene? Soft Inheritance is a finely crafted love letter to the people and places that imprint on a life. |
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| Physical Description: | 87 pages : portrait ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781990293528 1990293522 |