![]() With the onset of a painful chronic illness, the body and mental geography turn hostile and alien. ![]() Spencer alternates between the clinical and the domestic, disorientation and reorientation, awe and awareness. Shadowing the trajectory of an elegy, this poetry collection of lament, remembrance, and solace wrestles with how we come to terms with suffering while still finding joy, meaning, and beauty. In these alluring poems, myth becomes part of the arsenal used to confront the flaws and failures of our fallible bodies. In myth and memory, through familiar stories reimagined, she constructs poetry for anyone who has ever stumbled, unwillingly, into a wilderness. Readers enter “a stunted world,” where landmarks-a river, a house, a woman’s own body-have become unrecognizable in a place as distorted and dangerous as any of the old tales poet Molly Spencer remasters in this elegant, mournful collection. Finding joy and beauty in the face of suffering ![]()
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