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The built moment

Greenlaw, Lavinia, 1962-2019
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'The Built Moment' is divided into two sections. The first, 'The Sea is an Edge and an Ending', is a sequence of poems about her father's disappearance into Alzheimer's. It is not a narrative of illness so much as a meditation on the metaphysics of memory loss. What does it mean only to exist in the present, for your sense of self to come loose and for the past to float free? The second half of the book is called 'The Bluebell Horizontal'. If the first section is about loss (the verticals), this section is about possibility (the horizontals).
Main title:
The built moment / Lavinia Greenlaw.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Faber & Faber, 2019.
Collation:
53 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9780571347100 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
821.92
Language:
English
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BRN:
1943779
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