In her exceptional poetic debut, Fawn Parker meditates on grief, illness, and the open-handed relationship between material objects and memory. Written after her mother was diagnosed with cancer, Soft Inheritance follows the poet’s rapidly evolving reality where “kindness is a scar,” though “not all scar-makers are kind.,”” Both a treatise on the sick body and the state of “”after”–post-caretaking, post-breakup, post-moving, and post-death–these poems question what is inherited, and ask what can safely be left behind. A diamond ring? A cancerous gene? Soft Inheritance is a finely crafted love letter to the people and places that imprint on a life.
Author: Fawn Parker
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Palimpsest Press
Published: 09/16/2023
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.3lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.60w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781990293528
Language: English
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