Gleam
eBook - ePub

Gleam

  1. 64 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

About this book

In these 40 powerful new poems, Sarah Broom explores the effect of a life-threatening condition by way of the landscapes of the natural world, charting the hardest things in beautiful language. Broom's forte is in encapsulating, expressing, and making sense of strong internal feeling and turmoil through metaphor, and in Gleam, her poems bring together heightened emotion, a robust sense of the physical body, and an external landscape in controlled, sinewy language. In the title poem, she charts a radiotherapy session in both physical and metaphoric terms: "there are avenues of light / and now there is a wide and open terrain, my brain / is a vast, hilly country." This impressive collection examines basic human truths with clarity and force and will open out painful, rewarding vistas for its readers.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Content
  4. holding the line
  5. if I could land
  6. tides
  7. vigil
  8. One story and the other
  9. disorder in the night
  10. breath
  11. introduction (belated)
  12. because
  13. astral
  14. the skeleton and the wave
  15. the skeleton dances under the stars
  16. Creature
  17. tender
  18. anchor
  19. Meditation on dying
  20. Of Necessity
  21. wind
  22. The Bony Crowd Whispered Thinly
  23. river come gently
  24. the fire
  25. Little Black Stick Figure
  26. small
  27. undiluted
  28. roses so close to the sea
  29. you are my harbour
  30. birdsong
  31. Those are pearls
  32. Healer
  33. defrost the dog
  34. Couplets
  35. on not being very Zen about it all
  36. About me and that moon
  37. sleepers
  38. This city
  39. Cohen
  40. gleam
  41. both
  42. Copyright Page
  43. Backcover