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In "Sick Letters from the Lovebed," Meghan Sterling's frank, lyrical chapbook, the poet explores the vagaries of midlife, the "erasures" and transformations that time wreaks.
Epistolary poems are interspersed throughout the manuscript- to family members, to physical and emotional states, to intangibles-and are bookended by poems that are letters to the body. In the first of those, the poet likens old selves to ghost-like "sisters." We come to meet several of these spectral identities in poems centered on relationships with the mother, the beloved, children, and the changing self.
Sterling wields precise and novel images ("The moon is glowering like a crumpled can...the backyard pool a bright blue mouth..."). Poems on chronic illness, fraught relationships, and loss contain unexpected metaphors and insights that bathe even the most trying circumstances in a kind of beauty.
The book begins with a poem of grief and concludes with ones that promise acceptance; the span between them proves a compelling journey for the reader. "Sick Letters from the Lovebed," is unflinching, wise, and generous, and the strong light it casts is a warm one.
--Marjorie Tesser
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In "Sick Letters from the Lovebed," Meghan Sterling's frank, lyrical chapbook, the poet explores the vagaries of midlife, the "erasures" and transformations that time wreaks. Epistolary poems are interspersed throughout the manuscript- to family members, to physical and emotional states, to intangibles-and are bookended by poems that are letters to the body. In the first of those, the poet likens old selves to ghost-like "sisters." We come to meet several of these spectral identities in poems centered on relationships with the mother, the beloved, children, and the changing self. Sterling wields precise and novel images ("The moon is glowering like a crumpled can.the backyard pool a bright blue mouth."). Poems on chronic illness, fraught relationships, and loss contain unexpected metaphors and insights that bathe even the most trying circumstances in a kind of beauty.The book begins with a poem of grief and concludes with ones that promise acceptance; the span between them proves a compelling journey for the reader. "Sick Letters from the Lovebed," is unflinching, wise, and generous, and the strong light it casts is a warm one. --Marjorie Tesser This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798256223380
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - In 'Sick Letters from the Lovebed,' Meghan Sterling's frank, lyrical chapbook, the poet explores the vagaries of midlife, the 'erasures' and transformations that time wreaks. Epistolary poems are interspersed throughout the manuscript- to family members, to physical and emotional states, to intangibles-and are bookended by poems that are letters to the body. In the first of those, the poet likens old selves to ghost-like 'sisters.' We come to meet several of these spectral identities in poems centered on relationships with the mother, the beloved, children, and the changing self. Sterling wields precise and novel images ('The moon is glowering like a crumpled can.the backyard pool a bright blue mouth.'). Poems on chronic illness, fraught relationships, and loss contain unexpected metaphors and insights that bathe even the most trying circumstances in a kind of beauty.The book begins with a poem of grief and concludes with ones that promise acceptance; the span between them proves a compelling journey for the reader. 'Sick Letters from the Lovebed,' is unflinching, wise, and generous, and the strong light it casts is a warm one. --Marjorie Tesser. Seller Inventory # 9798256223380
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In "Sick Letters from the Lovebed," Meghan Sterling's frank, lyrical chapbook, the poet explores the vagaries of midlife, the "erasures" and transformations that time wreaks. Epistolary poems are interspersed throughout the manuscript- to family members, to physical and emotional states, to intangibles-and are bookended by poems that are letters to the body. In the first of those, the poet likens old selves to ghost-like "sisters." We come to meet several of these spectral identities in poems centered on relationships with the mother, the beloved, children, and the changing self. Sterling wields precise and novel images ("The moon is glowering like a crumpled can.the backyard pool a bright blue mouth."). Poems on chronic illness, fraught relationships, and loss contain unexpected metaphors and insights that bathe even the most trying circumstances in a kind of beauty.The book begins with a poem of grief and concludes with ones that promise acceptance; the span between them proves a compelling journey for the reader. "Sick Letters from the Lovebed," is unflinching, wise, and generous, and the strong light it casts is a warm one. --Marjorie Tesser This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798256223380
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Sick Letters from the Lovebed | Meghan Sterling | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | Small Harbor Publishing | EAN 9798256223380 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. Seller Inventory # 136369420