The Bones of His Being - Volume 191

In unflinching lyrics, Sue Chenette confronts her father's depression and death. Probing memories, fingering mementos - a square nail, a sketch on a napkin, she examines them for what they may reveal of the father she was sure she knew, deepened, in death, into the mystery of his own being. The poems are a journey through grief, both a search for the father she loved and a searching look into a father/daughter relationship. At the heart of the book, the sequence 'A Transport of Grief' explores a weave of pain, need, and blame, of family grudges and love, moments of solace, and the sweeping sense of loss that attends a parent's death

About the author

Sue Chenette's first full-length collection of poetry, Slender Human Weight, was published by Guernica in 2009. She is also the author of three chapbooks: The Time Between Us, A Transport of Grief, and Solitude in Cloud and Sun. She lives in Toronto.

Product details

• Authors: Sue Chenette
• Publisher: Guernica Editions
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2012
• EAN: 9781550713695
• ISBN: 978-1-55071-369-5
• No. of pages: 65
• Dimensions: 124 mm x 196 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 113 g
• Series: Essential Poets (Ecco)
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama