Let the Heart Hold Down the Breakage or the Caregiver's Log bookcover

Let the Heart Hold Down the Breakage or the Caregiver's Log

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A hybrid work of poetry and prose journal entries. Maureen Owen's "caretaker's log" documents a mother's death and dying. A faithful transcription of amothers remembered life rendered with true emotion. "This magnificent work dwells in the struggle between death and dying," writes Fanny Howe. "The poet is the one who balances this weird difficulty. She is the caregiver keeping both alive. Through nights where days of dying begin with tissues, toothpicks, cries, pillows, sheets; the caregiver's offerings to the patient never quite work. The panic of hitting nightfall with its galloping horses, rodeos and racetracks, and the Southwest ranges try to stay as truthful to the mother as they are to the daughter transcribing them, until these darkest of lyrics lie in the realm of the divine."

Product Details

PublisherHanging Loose Press
Publish DateOctober 01, 2022
Pages84
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9781934909720
Dimensions8.8 X 6.8 X 0.3 inches | 0.3 pounds

About the Author

Maureen Owen is editor of Telephone Books and author of over ten poetry collections, including American Rush, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist, and AMELIA EARHEART, a recipient of the American Book Award. Formerly codirector of the Poetry Project, she now lives in Denver and teaches at Naropa University. Most recently, she is the author of EDGES OF WATER (Chax Press, 2013).

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