The Widow's Crayon Box - Poems

After her husband's death, Molly Peacock realized she was not living the received idea of a widow's mauve existence but instead was experiencing life in all colors. These gorgeous poems-joyful, furious, mournful, bewildered, sexy, devastated, whimsical and above all, moving-composed in sonnet sequences and in open forms, designed in four movements (After, Before, When, and Afterglow)-illuminate both the role of the caregiver and the crystalline emotions one can experience after the death of a cherished partner. With her characteristic virtuosity, her fearless willingness to confront even the most difficult emotions, and always with buoyancy and zest, Peacock charts widowhood in the twenty-first century.

From "Touched:"

After you died, I felt you next to me,

and over months you entered gradually

into that lake and disappeared. Not gone,

but so internalized you're not next to me.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Molly Peacock is the author of eight collections of poetry, including The Analyst: Poems and Cornucopia: New and Selected Poems. She lives in Toronto, Canada.

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• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 05.11.2024
• EAN: 9781324079439
• ISBN: 978-1-324-07943-9
• Abmessung: 147 mm x 218 mm x 15 mm
• Gewicht: 245 g
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; POETRY / General, Poetry, POETRY / Women Authors, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, Poetry / Poems