Poisonous If Eaten Raw

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Publication Year:
2022

ISBN-13: 9781773102986

<p><b>Winner, J.M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award</b></p><p>In this experimental long poem sequence, Alyda Faber transforms the portrait poem into runic shapes, ice shelved, sculpted, louvered on a winter shoreline. Twenty years after her mother’s death, Faber untethers herself from the mother she thinks she knows with wild analogies: depicting her mother variously as King Lear’s Kent, a Camperdown elm, a black-capped chickadee, Neil Peart, Pope Innocent X, and a funnel spider. </p><p>While embodying the passionate relationship between mother and daughter, Faber’s poems also expose the thorn in the flesh &#8212; the inability of mother and daughter to give each other what they most want to give. Endlessly discovered, yet ultimately unknowable, the poet’s mother is complex, mystifying, and unwavering: courageous in her decision to leave all that she knew behind; bewildering in her fidelity to a damaging marriage; steadfast in her devotion to a God who is at once adamant and the source of ephemeral beauty.</p>