Doll (9781733768368)
Paperback 28 pages English January 15, 2020
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In Doll, Elizabeth Mercurio explores the appetite to leave life and the beauty that binds us to it. Recalling an early suicide attempt, a grandmother's gift of violets, visiting a famous poet's grave, and mourning the loss of a heron, the speaker of these poems wonders why: "I love life/but sit with bones." Throughout the collection the speaker as well as the multi-faceted characters of others such as Ophelia, Camille Claudel, and Anne Sexton, court despair, transcendence, and the hope of survival through poems both tough and tender. Doll is a meditation on despair and the resilience of the "indestructible" heart.
- Author:
- Elizabeth Mercurio
- Publisher:
- Lily Poetry Review
- Publication Date:
- January 15, 2020
- Number of pages:
- 28 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 173376836X
- ISBN-13:
- 9781733768368