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Silvija : poems

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  • Author: Ridley, Sandra
    Edition: First edition
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    Issued
    2016
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    Created
    2017
    Summary:

    Grief is personal and unpredictable; no two people experience it the same way, and yet, each person that comes out the other side is transformed by their experience of loss and redemption.

    In a sequence of five feverish elegies, Sandra Ridley’s Silvija combines narrative lyric and experimental verse styles to manifest dark themes related to love and loss: the traumas of psychological suffering (isolation and confinement), physical abuse (by parent and partner), terminal illness (brain tumour and heart attack), revelation, resolution, and healing. Pulsing with the award-winning writer’s signature blend of fervour and sangfroid, the serial poems in Silvija accrue into a book-length testament to a grief both personal and human, leaving readers with the redemptive grace that comes from poetry’s ability to wrestle chaos into meaning.

    Subject(s): Grief | Canadian poetry
    Original Publisher: Toronto, Ont., BookThug
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781771662642
    Collection(s)/Series: Griffin Poetry Prize 2017