Does loss define us, or do we define loss? Tracing the duality of grief as it reverberates through a family, Callie Siskel wrestles with questions of identity and inheritance in precise, lucid poetry. Two Minds indulges and therefore exposes the vanity of turning private pain into art and the pursuit of self-revelation. Drawing on ekphrasis, ars poetica, and the prose poem, Siskel expands the elegiac genre as she oscillates between childhood and adulthood, art and mythology, as well as the natural and domestic world. At once cerebral and emotional, Two Minds is an essential meditation on the ways that loss cleaves and doubles our perceptive power.
Author: Callie Siskel
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 04/16/2024
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.36h x 5.79w x 0.54d
ISBN: 9781324073673
Language: English
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