Ritual Loss (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Carolann Madden | knygos.lt

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Poems that suggest how healing might be found by embracing community and ritual.

This book would like you to make a charm. This book would like you to say a spell. This book invites you to embrace your curse. It tells secrets and asks you, in turn, to tell your secrets, to ask what language you should speak and what happened in the war, to ask the bees what they know. These poems invite you to remember and to forget, but never to forget the magic words.

Carolann Caviglia Madden's debut collection, Ritual Loss, peers through the keyhole at the ritual nature of loss and at ways to recover lost rituals. Inviting readers to surrender to the trance-like rhythms of poems that spread across the page, this collection moves through heartbreak, conjury, war, immigration, redemption, making and dancing. Through incantation, folklore, wonder, and inquiry, this collection considers what it means to go on in a world with loss at its center. Resisting an overwhelming sense of uncertainty, Madden shows how kinship--with family, with the natural world, and with the rituals of one's ancestors--can bring healing to individuals and communities.

Ritual Loss is the winner of the 2024 Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Contest.