Full Moon of Afraid and Craving
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Full Moon of Afraid and Craving

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Full Moon of Afraid and Craving

About this book

A hometown is a data centre / where the past is stored

From a darkly humorous perspective, this book charts a young person's navigation of narrow definitions of faith, femininity, and family.

Confronting addiction, compulsions, and anxieties, Full Moon of Afraid and Craving explores the strange combination of wonder and longing that makes a life. Across settings rural and urban, Melanie Power's poems commemorate ordinary moments and everyday characters: a roadside shopkeeper, a neighbourhood linden tree, a great-uncle's hooch. Interrogating lineage and inheritance, she traces the unsettling shadows that border joy. A series of ambivalent odes pay a winking, Proustian homage to the sense memories of a Roman Catholic millennial upbringing in Newfoundland. The long poem "The Fever and the Fret," written during pandemic lockdown in Montreal, considers how we re-examine and consolidate our personal and civic pasts in times of crisis, drawing timely parallels to John Keats's confinement due to illness exactly two centuries prior.

At times wry and lighthearted, at others elegiac and plaintive, the voices in these poems are controlled and confident. Just as the stars in the sky are best viewed at night, this collection embraces darkness to illuminate rays of moonlight.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. CONTENTS
  4. ODE TO MCCAIN’S DEEP’N DELICIOUS CAKE
  5. THE REAL PLEIADES
  6. YOUR PAST SELVES ATTEND YOUR BIRTHDAY PARTY
  7. BASEL PENPAL
  8. ODE TO GREAT-UNCLE WILL’S SHINE
  9. LIGHT OF A FRACTURED MOON
  10. AFTER APPLE-PICKING
  11. IF YOU ANSWER YES TO ANY OF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS
  12. ELEGY TO 17
  13. AFTER MIDNIGHT
  14. ODE TO THE ½ MOON
  15. ANTIGONISH AT DAWN
  16. IT HURT TO BE NOWHERE
  17. MAGIC SHOW
  18. I SHOULD HAVE GUESSED
  19. NAMES LIKE QUARTZ IN THE MOUTH
  20. HARVEST
  21. PICKING SEASON
  22. ACROSS THE MARSHES
  23. ARCHIPELAGO
  24. ODE TO TUNNOCK’S CARAMEL LOG
  25. FROST IN OCTOBER
  26. ROMAN AUBADE
  27. ODE TO SLEEP
  28. SFOGLIATELLA
  29. ELEGY FOR THE LINDEN TREE
  30. ICEBERG IN FERRYLAND
  31. POWER’S STORE
  32. MY FATHER’S FATHER
  33. I HAVE NOT ALWAYS BEEN AS CAREFUL AS I AM NOW
  34. THE FEVER AND THE FRET
  35. I. Rue Garnier
  36. II. Avenue Querbes
  37. III. Avenue St-Marc
  38. IV. Rue Clark
  39. V. Rue Saint-Dominique
  40. VI. Avenue de Normanville
  41. I COME HOME TO REMEMBER WHY I HAVE TO LEAVE AGAIN
  42. SHAAR HASHOMAYIM CEMETERY
  43. ANDROMEDA
  44. THE STONE
  45. PURPLE BALLOONS
  46. NOTES
  47. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS