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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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The Sky Around My Father: Winner of the Mslexia Women's Poetry Pamphlet Competition

The Sky Around My Father: Winner of the Mslexia Women's Poetry Pamphlet Competition

Jelinek, Emilie

Paperback

Series: Mslexia Women's Poetry Pamphlet Competition Winners, Book 3

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $10.00

ISBN10: 1780377800
ISBN13: 9781780377803
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Published: Sep 23 2025
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.10 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

The Sky Around My Father charts the estrangement between a daughter and her charismatic but often terrifying father. With nuance and precision, these poems bear witness to a childhood shaped by fear, love and music - where admiration and foreboding uneasily coexist. Drawing on the language of Eastern European fairytales, folk music, chess and meteorology, Emilie Jelinek's sequence explores the mythic and monstrous dimensions of paternal absence. The observing moon, recurring throughout, becomes a quiet symbol of grief and longing, bridging distance with light. Through a textured blend of anecdotal and compressed lyric poems, ther sequence captures the reverberations of trauma and tenderness alike. At once intimate and archetypal, The Sky Around My Father confronts the deep complexities of the father-daughter bond - its beauty, its terror, and its lasting weather.

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