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In these edgy poems of witness, Sara Hennings speaker serves as both conduit and curator of the destructive legacies of alcoholism and multigenerational closeting. Considering the impact of addiction and sexual repression in the family and on its individual members, Henning explores with deft compassion the psychological ramifications of traumas across multiple generations. With the starling as an unspoken trope for victims who later perpetuate the cycle of abuse, suffering and shame became forces dangerous enough to down airliners. The strands Henning weavesviolent relationships, the destructive effects of long-term closeting, and the pall that shame casts over entire livesare hauntingly epiphanic. And yet these feverish lyric poems find a sharp beauty in their grieving, where Rolling Stone covers and hidden erotic photographs turn into talismans of regret and empathy. After the revelation that her deceased grandfather was a closeted homosexual who lived two lives, Henning considers the lasting effects of shame in regard to the silence, oppression, and erasure of sexual identity, issues that are of contemporary concern to the LGBTQIA community. Even through the dark / earth encircling us, Hennings speaker wonders if there isnt some way out of a place where my body / is just another smoke-stung / dirge of survival, if, in the end, love wont be victorious. Part eyewitness testimony, part autoethnography, this book of memory and history, constantly seeking and yearning, is full of poems too brutal and strange to suffer / [their] way anywhere but home.
- Format: Pocket/Paperback
- ISBN: 9780809336852
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 88
- Utgivningsdatum: 2018-10-30
- Förlag: Southern Illinois University Press