Arbor Vitae
Maureen Alsop
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Description
Love is the elixir which heals. Love offers dignity and connection and allows room for the most potent and challenging of reparations: forgiveness. Like a double-exposed photograph, the language in Arbor Vitae, "the tree of life," offers a delicate ribboning of shifting perspectives. The narration is activated as a witness, as consciousness is observed, and trespasses a "bare view" of a multilayered landscape. Here, a pensive topography of solitude and loss unfolds. This book-length pastoral poem seeks accountability and compassion for institutional and political trauma. Recent and historic human rights abuses merge to encompass a devastation that imprints the collective psyche. As Whitman writes, the scenery is the source: "the smallest sprout... goes onward and outward, nothing collapses." Arbor Vitae, in a dream state, from the shores of Guantanamo to the unfiltered "sun-burnished pines" of the multi-continental holocaust, seeks hope, seeks language as a root or a sapling that might break through the asphalt. Over amends for the disgrace of human rights abuses -voices merge in a textural elegiac for what might lift upward-unfurling leaves, harnessed, toward that one push into a great light.
Product Details
| Publisher | Nauset Press |
| Publish Date | November 05, 2023 |
| Pages | 72 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9781962890038 |
| Dimensions | 8.0 X 5.3 X 0.2 inches | 0.2 pounds |
BISAC Categories: , Poetry
About the Author
Maureen Alsop, Ph.D. is the author of Tender to Empress; Pyre; Later, Knives & Trees; Mirror Inside Coffin; Mantic; Apparition Wren (also a Spanish Edition, Reyezuelo Aparición; translated by Mario Domínguez Parra); and several chapbooks. She is the winner of several poetry prizes and was recently shortlisted for Montreal International Poetry Prize.
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