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The Marrow of Longing

Celeste Snowber

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Description:A descendent of Armenian genocide survivors, Celeste Nazeli Snowber explores the relationship between longing, belonging and identity. In The Marrow of Longing, her third book of poetry, she traces intergenerational trauma, her own heartaches and bodily yearnings, and lessons from kitchen conversations, to uncover universal themes. In doing so, she leads readers to discover what has shaped their own lives.The inherited trauma of the Armenian genocide marked Celeste’s childhood. Her poems express the culture’s sense of loss, counterbalanced by being a survivor and witness. In reflecting on her own childhood, she explores universal experiences: fragments of grandparents and parents’ love letters, cooking, night time prayers, and relationship to place. “Fragments can hold a world,” she says.Motherhood is a recurring theme in her poems. She recalls lessons learned in conversations with her mother: biographical details, traditional recipes, and ancestral wisdom. “My mother had an / eggplant soul / a beauty of both / dark and light / rough and tender…the meeting of art and life / just beneath the skin of plum black.”Film director Atom Egoyan wrote, “It’s so good to see our artists continue to carefully share our complex and unresolved history through their personal journeys.”Award winning BC poet Susan McCaslin describes The Marrow of Longing as “a liminal site where land, food bodysoul, the domestic and wild intermesh…a world where an Armenian mother’s sweeping of floors sweeps us into an ever present, enduring love.”We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Marrow of Longing. To get started finding The Marrow of Longing, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 94

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Harp Publishing

Release: 2021

ISBN: 1990137067

Description: A descendent of Armenian genocide survivors, Celeste Nazeli Snowber explores the relationship between longing, belonging and identity. In The Marrow of Longing, her third book of poetry, she traces intergenerational trauma, her own heartaches and bodily yearnings, and lessons from kitchen conversations, to uncover universal themes. In doing so, she leads readers to discover what has shaped their own lives.The inherited trauma of the Armenian genocide marked Celeste’s childhood. Her poems express the culture’s sense of loss, counterbalanced by being a survivor and witness. In reflecting on her own childhood, she explores universal experiences: fragments of grandparents and parents’ love letters, cooking, night time prayers, and relationship to place. “Fragments can hold a world,” she says.Motherhood is a recurring theme in her poems. She recalls lessons learned in conversations with her mother: biographical details, traditional recipes, and ancestral wisdom. “My mother had an / eggplant soul / a beauty of both / dark and light / rough and tender…the meeting of art and life / just beneath the skin of plum black.”Film director Atom Egoyan wrote, “It’s so good to see our artists continue to carefully share our complex and unresolved history through their personal journeys.”Award winning BC poet Susan McCaslin describes The Marrow of Longing as “a liminal site where land, food bodysoul, the domestic and wild intermesh…a world where an Armenian mother’s sweeping of floors sweeps us into an ever present, enduring love.”We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Marrow of Longing. To get started finding The Marrow of Longing, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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