Resilience - Softcover

Emily Bilman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784623156 ISBN 13: 9781784623159

Publisher: Matador, 2015

Synopsis

With her skilful use of metaphor and her wonderful use of language and imagery, Emily Bilman reminds us that our capacity for resilience endows us with the power to survive trauma. The modern Faust, to whom the book refers, defies death through the power of resilience. Like Faust, we have to surpass evil impulses to purify ourselves and reach resilience. As we survive tragedy and misfortune, we begin to evolve and grow spiritually. Emily draws upon a humanistic premise that extends from the mythological dimension to our contemporary values. The poems in this book show that the poet has been in those hollows of isolation and solitude and risen from them. In reading this book, the reader attains not only an existential resilience based upon their own understanding, but experiences a personal metamorphosis.

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Review:

'With her wonderful use of language and imagery, Emily Bilman weaves through the poems with her skilful use of metaphor.' --Bruce Kauffman

About the Author:

Dr Emily Bilman is London's Poetry Society Stanza representative and hosts poetry meetings and seminars in her home in Geneva. Her poems have been published in The London Magazine, Hunger Mountain, Offshoots VII & XII, Orbis, Poetry Salzburg Review, Iodine and The San Diego Annual 2014, Aois 21 Annual in America and The Inspired Heart Vols. 1 & 2 & 3. Two academic books, The Psychodynamics of Poetry and Modern Ekphrasis were published in 2010 and 2013. Her sonnet 'The White Owl' was commended in the Stanza Competition in London and read out at the Southbank Centre on National Poetry Day.

About this edition

• Publisher: Matador
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1784623156
• ISBN 13: 9781784623159
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144