Description
Bess Cooleys Florence is an artful and touching collection of poems with piercing meditations on loss, time, and memory. Cooleys speaker muses about how changes in the body and brain can alter identity, faced with their own bodys vulnerabilities and the difficulty of aiding a grandfather through dementia. Intimately linked with the speakers journey, the poems are a stunning portrayal of the wishes, regrets, and intricacies of a minds lifetime. The speaker dips in and out of reality, and the reader is welcome to follow. Lines like Ive been writing love poems to my grandfather / who has started to call me the poet, the stranger poet offer pause and possibility. With an altered mind, reality shifts; but perhaps the erasure of one reality opens room for another. Cooleys poems are the kind you come back to repeatedly to find wisdom, warmth, or remembering. In Florence, the speakers is an inspiring account of rebuilding after loss, and making sense of what is left.
Author: Bess Cooley
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Sundress Publications
Published: 10/15/2024
Pages: 78
Weight: 0.29lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.19d
ISBN: 9781951979669
Language: English
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