- SKU: 9781945233180
- BARCODE: 9781945233180
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A Map of Every Undoing - Paperback
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by Alicia Elkort (Author)
Alicia Elkort's arresting suite of poems makes magic by complicating survivor archetypes and superimposing the author's journey of healing onto her inventive recreations of mythic figures. A Map of Every Undoing rips through Elkort's girlhood memories with an unflinching intensity, re-assembling her life history in a hard-earned act of self-love. These poems are defiant in their vulnerability, daring readers to look away at the same time they compel us to continue.
A Map of Every Undoing tends its wounds with meticulous prosody-a dazzling display of language and voluminous vulnerability, each poem in Elkort's collection is as much a bounty on the tongue as it is a feast for the collective hurts hungering in all of us.
--Dr. Diamond Forde, author of Mother Body
Elkort's poems surprise us at every turn with their fierce gaze, candid wit, and unflinching intelligence. She distills the bewildering tumult and turbulence that is our existence into song. Her voice, which demands and deserves our attention, is nimble, vivid, and energetic.
--Eric Pankey author of Augury and Crow-Work
Akin to Persephone "blazing a sadness" to the underworld, Alicia Elkort's remarkable debut A Map of Every Undoing takes the reader on an excoriating odyssey through childhood trauma... is an address to those who have wronged, as well as to those who have been harmed, while also functioning as a reclamation of a woman's power in the face of deathly erasure: "I write my escape, / blood drying on page after page, / folios of fire poppies." Each of Elkort's lines is so freighted with anguish and a serrated grace that I want to quote her repeatedly.
--Simone Muench, author of Wolf Centos and Orange Crush
Alicia Elkort's dazzling debut, A Map of Every Undoing, offers both lovesong to the strength of women and girls and healing balm for those who've been abused, bullied, unacknowledged, unsung, or unloved...This collection is both vast as the "unfathomable universe" and personal as beloveds sharing a quiet home-spun dream ("Here is my hand & here is laughter & here is solace / & here is my house where I live by a tree"). These poems are lithe and robust at once, filled with wisdom, care, and patience of a true healer. I love this collection completely.
--Jenn Givhan, author of Belly to the Brutal and River Woman, River Demo
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