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Staring Down the Tracks
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781948461481
Publisher: Poetry Box
Published: Mar 10 2020
Pages: 44
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.09 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Staring Down the Tracks is a collection of poems that gives voice to those affected by addiction, a population that, despite their numbers and diverse demographics, is often harshly judged and silenced by shame. The mother and son of these poems are your neighbors, friends, relatives, and co-workers who need to have a dialog with you.
Images precise and severe are accompanied by a fragile, defiantly beautiful music as the poet describes the son whom she will lose, over and over again. Erica Funkhouser, author of Post & Rail, winner of the Idaho Prize for Poetry
...a courageous and generous collection, an essential contribution to literature about addiction that will change you. Daniel Donaghy, author, Somerset: Start with the Trouble, winner of the Paterson Prize for Literary Excellence
If Sylvia Plath were the mother of an addict, she would write poems like [these]. Miriam Greenspan, psychotherapist and author, Healing Through the Dark Emotions: The Wisdom of Grief, Fear, and Despair
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