The Bearable Slant of Light

The Bearable Slant of Light asks what the burden and gift of madness brings to a family, to our world.

What can we bear and what can we lift when a beloved, when our world, is light-struck and mad? The Bearable Slant of Light documents a web of clinical assessments, medications, the terrible beauties of delusion, and the fragile gifts of darkness. Poems that reach across the history of writers and artists who fought and sometimes lost their own battles against mental illness are set against the urgencies of our anxious world and the intimate struggle of one family.

About the author

Lynnell Edwards is a poet, writer, teacher, and author of six collections of poetry, most recently The Bearable Slant of Light (Red Hen Press, 2023) and This Great Green Valley (Broadstone Books, 2020). She serves as associate programs director for the Sena Jeter Naslund-Karen Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University, where she is faculty in poetry and also book reviews editor for Good River Review. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky.

Summary

The Bearable Slant of Lightasks what the burden and gift of madness brings to a family, to our world.

Product details

• Authors: Lynnell Edwards
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 23.04.2024, delayed
• EAN: 9781636281285
• ISBN: 978-1-63628-128-5
• No. of pages: 88
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / Women Authors, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / General, Family life fiction, Poetry by individual poets, Narrative theme: Health and illness