9781324005667-1324005661-Seeing the Body: Poems

Seeing the Body: Poems

ISBN-13: 9781324005667
ISBN-10: 1324005661
Edition: 1
Author: Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover 144 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781324005667
ISBN-10: 1324005661
Edition: 1
Author: Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover 144 pages

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Seeing the Body: Poems (ISBN-13: 9781324005667 and ISBN-10: 1324005661), written by authors Rachel Eliza Griffiths, was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2020. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Seeing the Body: Poems (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.62.

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Poems and photographs collide in this intimate collection, challenging the invisible, indefinable ways mourning takes up residence in a body, both before and after life-altering loss.In radiant poems--set against the evocative and desperate backdrop of contemporary events, pop culture, and politics--Rachel Eliza Griffiths reckons with her mother's death, aging, authority, art, black womanhood, memory, and the American imagination. The poems take shape in the space where public and private mourning converge, finding there magic and music alongside brutality and trauma. Griffiths braids a moving narrative of identity and its possibilities for rebirth through image and through loss.A photographer as well as a poet, Griffiths accompanies the fierce rhythm of her verses with a series of ghostly, imaginative self-portraits, blurring the body's internal wilderness with landscapes alive with beauty and terror. The collision of text and imagery offers an associative autobiography, in which narratives of language, absence, and presence are at once saved, revised, and often erased. Seeing the Body dismantles personal and public masks of silence and self-destruction to visualize and celebrate the imperfect freedom of radical self-love.

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