Letters To My Lover From Behind Asylum Walls
Language: English
Published by Cosmographia Books, 2018
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- Title
- Letters To My Lover From Behind Asylum Walls
- Author
- Sinclair, Robin
- Publisher
- Cosmographia Books
- Publication year
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1732269033
- ISBN 13
- 9781732269033
PRAISE FOR LETTERS TO MY LOVER FROM BEHIND ASYLUM WALLS
Written from an asylum, these epistles provide something more “delicate and wrathful” than the expectation that our interned speaker has a tenuous grip on reality. Instead, we witness moments of wisdom and lucidity made possible because the strength of Sweet Jane’s love for Eleanor is greater than the weight of her trauma. These poems guide us through the questions we must ask about how memory and isolation work after a severe tragedy, in order to determine which truths we are most invested in preserving, perhaps more than which are worth discovering.
-Kristi Carter, author of Cosmovore and Daughter Shaman Sings Blood Anthem
Robin Sinclair’s poetry reveals, in careful construction, the movement in grief. This is Robin’s homage to the human body. They are ruminant, reflective, hauntingly tender when they speak, “I wonder what all of this will look like when completely healed.” Here is gentle longing, they shape it as both touch and desire. I believe Robin when they write, “There are bones in dirt they’re sure of if they just knew where to dig.” The body is alive, “viciously creating a future.” Here, we lean in to listen to the music of all that we don’t remember happening. The music is as real as it is indelible, and it speaks to you, “There’s so much hunger here, my love. They feed us well, but not what we need, and if I don’t get out soon I fear I may starve.” And if this isn’t the truth, I don’t know what is.
-Tanya Singh, author of Heaven is Only a Part of Our Body Where All the Sickness Resides
Read the cycle of poems here in Robin Sinclair’s Letters to My Lover From Behind Asylum Walls and be immersed in its passages of rawness, brutality, wry humor and truths and you will find it as foreboding, palpable, and as freeing as when you first read The Bell Jar. Unlike The Bell Jar, Sinclair’s collection is wholly of our times, scraping as it does beneath the messy surface, seeing life as it is when the carapace of wellness and serotonin blankets is ripped away and we see the damage done. Read this book because it is so vital to exorcising many ghosts—yours, mine and ours, past and present!
-G.E. Schwartz, author of Only Others Are: Poems, World, Thinking In Tongues and the forthcoming Murmurations
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