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Arbor Vitae

Arbor Vitae

Alsop, Maureen

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1962890031
ISBN13: 9781962890038
Publisher: Nauset Press
Published: Nov 5 2023
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.17 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Love is the elixir which heals. Love offers dignity and connection and allows room for the most potent and challenging of reparations: forgiveness. Like a double-exposed photograph, the language in Arbor Vitae, the tree of life, offers a delicate ribboning of shifting perspectives. The narration is activated as a witness, as consciousness is observed, and trespasses a bare view of a multilayered landscape. Here, a pensive topography of solitude and loss unfolds. This book-length pastoral poem seeks accountability and compassion for institutional and political trauma. Recent and historic human rights abuses merge to encompass a devastation that imprints the collective psyche. As Whitman writes, the scenery is the source: the smallest sprout... goes onward and outward, nothing collapses. Arbor Vitae, in a dream state, from the shores of Guantanamo to the unfiltered sun-burnished pines of the multi-continental holocaust, seeks hope, seeks language as a root or a sapling that might break through the asphalt. Over amends for the disgrace of human rights abuses -voices merge in a textural elegiac for what might lift upward-unfurling leaves, harnessed, toward that one push into a great light.

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