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Frayed Linens
Paperback
Publisher Price: $16.95
ISBN13: 9781990773679
Publisher: Exile Editions
Published: Nov 28 2025
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.33 Width: 5.36 Depth: 7.88
Language: English
From a mother's sorcery, to a satirical abduction, to a Celtic saint's interventions, and the stone hands of a gargoyle, the range and energy of this new collection cannot conceal the tenderness that propels it.
Marilyn Bowering casts the poet as a traveller, and Frayed Linens is a poet's exorcism of the nightmares that haunt today's world. She writes of beauty and resilience within darkness, from the ruins of ancient Greece to the horrors of Mariupol, showing how History echoes itself at every turn. She is accompanied in these poems by ancestral and mythic figures, beloved poets, and the ghosts of her own life-story as the body and spirit - the frayed linens of the title - are worn and renewed over time.
Bowering's writing is as rich in colour and texture as is the uneven tapestry of life itself. --Ormsby Review
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