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100	1		_aKelly, Donika, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe renunciations : _bpoems / _cDonika Kelly.
264		1	_aMinneapolis, Minnesota : _bGraywolf Press, _c[2021]
264		4	_c©2021
300			_a94 pages ; _c23 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"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.""--Amazon.
650		0	_aAmerican poetry _y21st century. _966237
650		0	_aAmerican poetry _xAfrican American authors. _932297
655		7	_aPoetry. _2lcgft _96749
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