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The Weeping Degree: How Astrology Saved Me From Suicide
Paperback
Publisher Price: $14.95
ISBN13: 9781957468327
Publisher: Wild Rising Press
Published: Aug 23 2024
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
BRONZE MEDAL WINNER IN POETRY--The Wishing Shelf Awards, U.K. (2025)
DISTINGUISHED FAVOURITE (2nd prize) --The Independent Press Awards, U.S. (2026)
The Weeping Degree is a poetry collection readers call powerful and healing.
What if a wound could become a gift?
What if your moment of greatest despair sent you a healing journey that would change your life forever?
The Weeping Degree, a gritty collection of poetry and prose takes you on a survivor's journey from brokenness to wholeness, darkness to light; from tears to triumph and finally laughter. This brutally honest poemoir by award-winning writer, Kelly Watt, tells the herstory of a trauma, as it echoes throughout the author's life, slowly transforming through time from a wound to a gift. Along the way, Watt turns to astrology, Buddhism, and the women's movement to make sense of her tragic experiences. Divided into three sections: The Home for Little Girls, The Buddha and The Pink Futon, and Hands Across the World, this narrative travels the globe, starting in the silent shadows of foster care in a bleak Canadian suburb, and emerging into the light and sound of Sanskrit chanting in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Nepal.
Winner of multiple awards-the Wishing Shelf Book Awards, and the Independent Press Award--this is a thoughtful and moving collection that reads like a love letter for the silenced and despairing. It will take you on a wild ride, to a place where poetry is an alchemical art; an exploration of the deepest self where your sorrows are transmuted through creativity to self-empowerment and joy.
Take the journey. Immerse yourself in poetry that touches your heart and feeds your soul and transmute your weeping to wonder and insight.
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