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Suicide Psalms

Suicide Psalms

Rowley, Mari-Lou

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ISBN10: 1895636922
ISBN13: 9781895636925
Publisher: Anvil Pr
Pages: 95
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.40 Width: 4.90 Depth: 6.80
Language: English

Suicide Psalms is both hymn and visceral scream--of loss, despair, hope and ultimately redemption. These poems are drawn out with quick precision, as if they were indeed written in haste, or delirium, before tightening the noose or firing the pistol or jumping off of the ledge.

Even though the media has recognized suicide as an epidemic, it is still not talked about outside of grief management and support groups. The subject remains taboo, and those left behind face a legacy of silence, shame and guilt. The poems in the first section of the book Suicide Notes attempt to answer the question why? Their density of language, slippage of syntax, sound play, repetition, and visceral imagery engender both empathy and relief, as each poem bears witness and pays homage.

The work also addresses a larger collective malaise: the disintegration of society and self, the loss of innocence and exploitation of youth, and the hopelessness and despair that smoulders under the veneer of corporate greed, rabid consumerism, and the resultant addictions, aberrations and violence.

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