Full Moon of Afraid and Craving: Volume 69

Confronting addiction, compulsions, and anxieties, this collection explores the combination of wonder and longing that makes a life. Melanie Power's poems commemorate ordinary moments and everyday characters - a roadside shopkeeper, a neighbourhood linden tree, a great-uncle's hooch - tracing the unsettling shadows that border joy.

About the author

Melanie Power is a Montreal-based writer from Newfoundland. Full Moon of Afraid and Craving is her first book.

Summary

Confronting addiction, compulsions, and anxieties, this collection explores the combination of wonder and longing that makes a life. Melanie Power’s poems commemorate ordinary moments and everyday characters – a roadside shopkeeper, a neighbourhood linden tree, a great-uncle’s hooch – tracing the unsettling shadows that border joy.

Product details

• Authors: Melanie Power
• Publisher: Mcgill-Queen's University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9780228011064
• ISBN: 978-0-228-01106-4
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 122 mm x 192 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 136 g
• Series: Hugh Maclennan Poetry Series; Hugh MacLennan Poetry
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies