The Renunciations: Poems

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$17.00  $15.81
Publisher
Graywolf Press
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Pages
72
Dimensions
5.8 X 9.0 X 0.3 inches | 0.35 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781644450536
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About the Author
Donika Kelly is the author of Bestiary, winner of the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, the 2017 Hurston/Wright Award for poetry, and the 2018 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She teaches at the University of Iowa.
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"The journey we take in The Renunciations is nothing short of rescue mission. And who else but Donika Kelly could offer such a lucid guide to the central figure of this book, as she navigates her most difficult years. . . . The poems are startling, disturbing, and relentlessly bold. I can't imagine a time before having The Renunciations as a part of my emotional ecosystem and poetic landscape. Thank you, Donika, is what I really want to say."--francine j. harris

"With Donika Kelly's signature stinging beauty, The Renunciations names acts of wounding and making, refuses to separate elemental memory from the language of human remembrance. . . . Kelly's poems gather us from cliff edge to river fold, from terror to more terror, from what cannot be known to what intuition and mirrors can divine."--Khadijah Queen

"In The Renunciations, her vital new poetry collection, Donika Kelly harnesses 'the air, the earth, and flame' to renounce the old gods: child abuse, violence, racial injustice, generational trauma. . . . The Renunciations is a work of stunning power, alive with haunting images, complex metaphor. And while Kelly looks unsparingly at pain and suffering--her own and others'--with transformation comes joy."--Ellen Bass