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Minnie Bruce Pratt

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Description:Once in a blue moon, a love like this comes alongThis collection of love poems draws us into the sacred liminal space that surrounds death. With her beloved gravely ill, poet and activist Minnie Bruce Pratt turns to daily walks and writing to find a way to go on in a world where injustice brings so much loss and death. Each poem is a pocket lens "to swivel out and magnify" the beauty in "the little glints, insignificant" that catch her eye: "The first flowers, smaller than this s." She also chronicles the quiet rooms of "pain and the body's memory," bringing the reader carefully into moments that will be familiar to anyone who has suffered similar loss. Even as she asks, "What's the use of poetry? Not one word comes back to talk me out of pain," the book delivers a vision of love that is boldly political and laced with a tumultuous hope that promises: "Revolution is bigger than both of us, revolution is a science that infers the future presence of us." This lucid poetry is a testimony to the radical act of being present and offers this balm: that the generative power of love continues after death.Oh DeathSomeone sang, Oh death! Oh death! Won't youpass me over for another day? Someone said, Idreamed of you last night. I dreamed youwere telling me your whole life story.Whole. Whorled. Welkin, winkle, wrinkle.The loop of time holds us all together.The pile of laundry on the bed. Youfolding socks one inside the other. Wehave had this day, and now this night.The clothes are put away, and from the bed we seethe moon folding light into darkness, not death.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Magnified (Wesleyan Poetry Series). To get started finding Magnified (Wesleyan Poetry Series), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Once in a blue moon, a love like this comes alongThis collection of love poems draws us into the sacred liminal space that surrounds death. With her beloved gravely ill, poet and activist Minnie Bruce Pratt turns to daily walks and writing to find a way to go on in a world where injustice brings so much loss and death. Each poem is a pocket lens "to swivel out and magnify" the beauty in "the little glints, insignificant" that catch her eye: "The first flowers, smaller than this s." She also chronicles the quiet rooms of "pain and the body's memory," bringing the reader carefully into moments that will be familiar to anyone who has suffered similar loss. Even as she asks, "What's the use of poetry? Not one word comes back to talk me out of pain," the book delivers a vision of love that is boldly political and laced with a tumultuous hope that promises: "Revolution is bigger than both of us, revolution is a science that infers the future presence of us." This lucid poetry is a testimony to the radical act of being present and offers this balm: that the generative power of love continues after death.Oh DeathSomeone sang, Oh death! Oh death! Won't youpass me over for another day? Someone said, Idreamed of you last night. I dreamed youwere telling me your whole life story.Whole. Whorled. Welkin, winkle, wrinkle.The loop of time holds us all together.The pile of laundry on the bed. Youfolding socks one inside the other. Wehave had this day, and now this night.The clothes are put away, and from the bed we seethe moon folding light into darkness, not death.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Magnified (Wesleyan Poetry Series). To get started finding Magnified (Wesleyan Poetry Series), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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