The Natural Order of Things: Poems - Couverture souple

Kelly, Donika

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1644453592 ISBN 13 : 9781644453599

Editeur : Graywolf Press, 2025

Synopsis

An extraordinary and unexpected book of finding happiness, by the award-winning author of The Renunciations

What does a life look like on the other side of survival, and can the one who survived come to recognize that she did?

Donika Kelly's poetry is known for its resonant, unflinching confrontations with trauma and inheritance, translated through myth and nature. The Natural Order of Things expands these explorations into a new realm: one defined by joy and connection. It is an ode to companionship with people, animals, and our planet, and reveals the reparative power of intimacy. In poems inventive, playful, and formally nimble, Kelly pays homage to the voices and people she comes from, the songs of her lineage. Other poems follow the early stirrings of love to erotic transcendence with the lover and the self. Throughout, Kelly finds mirror and marvel in nature, art, and precious friendships. Though it once seemed impossible, she realizes a surprising place for herself, a rightness in the larger world.

The Natural Order of Things is a brilliant and moving book, one that reaches toward equilibrium and something like happiness.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Donika Kelly is the author of Bestiary, winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and The Renunciations, winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Graywolf Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1644453592
• ISBN 13: 9781644453599
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 72
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• Personne responsable: non disponible