Shedding Season (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Jane Morton | knygos.lt

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Flies filling a kitchen; grackles filling the branches of a tree; a bruise blooming over skin: in Shedding Season, nature is a force that constantly threatens to overwhelm those who would keep it in check. Instead, Morton explores what it means to refuse the language of dominance, to recognize oneself as a small part of an impossibly complex ecosystem. From this vantage, insects' legs can form a chorus and violence can be worked like a bow against an instrument, attempting beauty. In turn, a house can become a trap; a family a threat; and the notion of salvation something you can drown in. In Shedding Season, a broken narrative follows cycles of violence and ecological degradation across generations, illuminating the ways in which our relationships - with others, ourselves, and our environments - define us even as we define them. With language, image, and narrative always in flux, these poems inhabit the grey areas between desire and disgust, safety and survival. In constant search of breaking points, Morton interrogates the impermanence of identity: how many times can something evolve before it becomes something else?