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Grey All Over

Grey All Over

Actis, Andrea

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ISBN10: 1771315393
ISBN13: 9781771315395
Publisher: Brick Books
Published: Apr 1 2021
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 RELIT AWARDS

Please stay with me, please stay here, please cause poltergeists in my stupid apartment...

Late in the evening of December 13, 2007, Andrea Actis found her father, Jeff, facedown dead in her East Vancouver apartment. So began her passage through grief, self-reckoning, and graduate school in Providence, Rhode Island, where the poetics she studied (and sometimes repudiated) became integral to her gradual reconstruction of wholeness. An assemblage of evidence recovered from emails about paranormal encounters sent and received by Jeff (greyallover@yahoo.com), junk mail from false prophets, an annotated excerpt from Laura (Riding) Jackson's The Serious Angels: A True Story, and transcripts of Actis' dreams, conversations, and messages to the dead, Grey All Over not only celebrates a rare, close, complicated father-daughter bond, it also boldly expands the empathetic and critical capacities of poetry itself. In pulling us outside the comfort zones of received aesthetics and social norms, Actis asks us to embrace with whole seriousness the pragmatics of intuition in all the ways we read, live, and love.

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