Water Lessons

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  • Author : Lisa Dordal
  • Release Date : 2022-04
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  • Pages : 0
  • ISBN 13 : 9781625570994
  • File Size : 70,70 MB
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Water Lessons by Lisa Dordal PDF Summary

Book Description: "Beneath the obvious beauty of Lisa Dordal's poetry lies a subtle ferocity that threatens to undo the reader on every page of WATER LESSONS. 'Anyone can become / animal or a flicker of light' warns the speaker as she embarks on a journey of recovery: of the memories surrounding a mother's addiction and death; of a father's dementia, which softens him even as it steals him away; and of the speaker's own complicity in mid-century suburban oblivion, a complicity that makes both a mother's and a Black maid's miseries equally tragic. Dordal demands that we not only see the past, but that we step into its deceptively gentle tide, one that sweeps us back to the people, places, and eras that still haunt us. In these poems, no one is truly safe, no one is truly innocent, and no one is truly gone. WATER LESSONS teaches us that swimming against the current of remembrance is futile. We can only trust the water to hold us without drowning us, and to return us to some shore, even if where we land is not where we were first submerged."--Destiny O. Birdsong"WATER LESSONS provides one of the most profound encounters with the human psyche we've found on the page. If you remember flipping through vintage anatomy textbooks, the kind with transparent pages of organs and muscles and bones, then you might begin to understand how Lisa Dordal's poems work their magic--by clear and accurate layering of what is past pressed against what is present, the inner workings of the human condition are mapped with stunning veracity. At the core of this oscillation between here and there, then and now, is a mother's long-ago but still deeply felt death and a father's dementia--an ache that admits 'there is no such thing / as a half-life for grief,' a confluence of time that can no longer tell the difference between love or death... This book will leave you stunned and aching in its wake. What conjuring. What insight. What truth, unmarred and deeply examined." --Nickole Brown

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