Larks
Han VanderHart
Belletristik / Lyrik, Dramatik
Beschreibung
The core of Larks is rural and mythic and true, existential and domestic, tender while full of sharp grief and documentation. Circling genealogies of silence and harm in a southern family, Larks centers on the relationship and memories of three sisters and Ovid’s telling of Philomel. In a landscape inhabited as much by farm animals (cows, goats, chickens, and barn kittens) as by the family, the lyric poem parses and articulates the self’s history—from the experience of a sister’s home birth to the traumatic erasure (and recovery) of the speaker’s memory. A work of poetic memoir, Larks asks if poetry can hold the heaviest truths we carry. The answer is a resounding yes.
Kundenbewertungen
Philomela, family trauma, memoir, documentary poetics, poems about Southern families, Ovid, rural living, Metamorphoses, gendered violence, Poems set in the American South, genealogy, survivor story, trauma and healing, PTSD and CPTSD