The Bearable Slant of Light
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Bearable Slant of Light
By (Author) Lynnell Edwards
Red Hen Press
Red Hen Press
31st July 2024
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)
811.6
Physical Properties
Paperback
100
Width 152mm, Height 228mm
Description
What can we bear and what can we lift when a beloved, when our world, is light-struck and mad The Bearable Slant of Light documents a web of clinical assessments, medications, the terrible beauties of delusion, and the fragile gifts of darkness. Poems that reach across the history of writers and artists who fought and sometimes lost their own battles against mental illness are set against the urgencies of our anxious world and the intimate struggle of one family.
Author Bio
Lynnell Edwards is a poet, writer, teacher, and author of six collections of poetry, most recently The Bearable Slant of Light (Red Hen Press, 2023) and This Great Green Valley (Broadstone Books, 2020). She serves as associate programs director for the Sena Jeter Naslund-Karen Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University, where she is faculty in poetry and also book reviews editor for Good River Review. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky.
