
- 88 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Coronation of the Cosmic Orphan
About this book
For Bolton, healing from maternal narcissistic abuse is incomplete without coming to know the divine. Through a poetic contemplation of her own Hindu-Christian background, paired with an exploration of the spiritual rootlessness faced by children of narcissistic parents, she explores the idea that the damaged nervous systems of narcissistic abuse victims display a naturally poetic and biological response that corresponds to a certain early stage of divine experience. Ultimately, Bolton's concept of God, which permeates her poems, comes not from any one faith but from the traumatized brain's need to take a frightening, chaotic universe and find in it meaning, healing, and connection. Her debut collection of bite-sized, easily digestible poetry makes an artistic attempt to capture the complex-traumatized brain's reach towards divinity to heal and transform. Her collection gathers and expresses many notions of divine experience that will feel familiar and provide poetic comfort and hope to victims of psychological abuse of all kinds.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- My Thumb
- How I Worship
- Terrible News
- Love Is an Oil
- At Last
- After You
- Breeze
- I Want to Tell You
- Gods Made of Meat
- The Poetic Images
- Those Who Dwell Slightly Higher
- Curse
- Brain Damage (Is Humiliating)
- What Success Feels Like
- What It Feels Like to Be Evil
- The Artist
- What Psychic Attack Feels Like
- The Happiness of the Soul Alone
- Lots of People Dream of Moving to California
- For Louise Bourgeois
- Hashtag Me Too
- Concern
- My Art, My Fight
- The Voice
- Moved
- Literary Lipstick
- Childbearing Woman
- How I Learned to Read
- Destination: Motherhood
- Wanted
- Inspiration
- Remember Karen
- We Cannot Go Back There
- Selfies as I Emerged
- Girls
- How Is a Mother Like a Writing Desk?
- Fully Formed
- Self-Killing
- Use Another Word
- I Made God Cry
- What God Are You?
- The Lie
- The Ring (or, Childhood Is the Scariest Horror Film There Is)
- Inheritance
- Ganesha
- Time Machine
- No I am Not (Conceited, Confused, Lacking Self-Awareness, about to Have an Episode, etc.)
- How I Met Ganesha
- Adjectives
- Women Who Wanted to Teach
- On Teaching
- Cry of the Mother-Poet
- Beautiful Brown Maternal Narcissism
- White Cube
- Asymmetry
- Impermanence
- What Troubled Them
- Dangerous
- Arguing with Walls
- The Moon these Days
- Apple and Eve
- Which One
- Morning Terror #1
- Morning Terror #2
- When Everything Was Against Me
- Creamy Pages
- Michelangelo Ceiling
- Everyone’s Angel
- Coronation