Her Whole Bright Life bookcover

Her Whole Bright Life

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Description

Her Whole Bright Life is a collection of poems that weave together the trauma and exhaustion of a life lived with disordered eating and the loss and grief of the death of the poet's father.

Love and hunger intertwine and become inseparable as the poet grapples to find, and listen, to both. With a distinct and feminist voice, this collection delves into a life now lived without a beloved parent, while trying to survive a pandemic and battling demons that have lived inside her for most of her life.

With both fierceness and tenderness, we see a woman trying to find her place within her own body and within an ever-changing world. This collection of poems is both an elegy and an anthem - praising both those who've been lost and those who remain.

Product Details

PublisherWrite Bloody Publishing
Publish DateApril 04, 2023
Pages84
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9781949342482
Dimensions8.8 X 5.8 X 0.3 inches | 0.1 pounds
BISAC Categories: Poetry, Poetry, Poetry

About the Author

Courtney LeBlanc is author of the full length collections Her Whole Bright Life, winner of the Jack McCarthy Book Prize (Write Bloody, 2023), Exquisite Bloody, Beating Heart (Riot in Your Throat, 2021), and Beautiful & Full of Monsters (VA Press, 2020). Her next collection, Her Dark Everything is forthcoming in April 2025 from Riot in Your Throat. She is the Arlington Poet Laureate, a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts fellow (2022), and the founder and editor-in-chief of Riot in Your Throat, an independent poetry. She loves nail polish, tattoos, and a soy latte each morning.

Reviews

"Help in the Dark Season is Jacqueline's most personal work to date, yet as always is an offering for our collective experience. She invites us to look at her ancestral past, to see how it relates to the now, showing us how we stay in the thick of love and manage to protect ourselves at the same time. This book--an intimate glimpse into her heart--helps us more clearly see ourselves. With each poem, a new spell is cast, for Jacqueline teaches us over and over again that there is indeed a light in the darkest seasons of our hearts, our communities, and our futures." --Marlee Grace, author of How to Not Always Be Working

"Jacqueline writes about love not in the one-dimensional, heart-emoji sense but as it truly feels: mysterious, insane, ever-shifting--a force that binds us to one another, to this earth, and to ourselves. Help in the Dark Season will break your heart and heal it all at once." --Hallie Bateman, author of What to Do When I'm Gone

"Suskin has ascended to a heart surgeon's level of ability in her poetry with this book, taking the blood of the matter and humanizing the cure with her words." --Jena Malone, actor

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