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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Post-Volcanic Folk Tales

Post-Volcanic Folk Tales

Polonyi, MacKenzie

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 163614196X
ISBN13: 9781636141961
Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.
Published: Dec 3 2024
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.28 Width: 7.05 Depth: 8.96
Language: English

Raised in a household of paprika in New Jersey by her homesick maternal grandmother--a refugee of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising and ensuing refugee crisis--Polonyi necessarily explores prescribed responsibilities of diasporic only-daughterhood. While shepherding her beloved grandmother through hospice at home, Polonyi wanders into slippery and informative familial-folkloric reveriescapes, gathering cartographic knowledge from her grandmother's body, name, language, personal possessions, and stories. In a fever of the figurative she desperately records the residues of her grandmother's waning memories while condemning violent political conditions, interrogating intergenerational psychoemotional curses, and contemplating ethics of witnessing. What do we give each other? How do we metabolize what we inherit for healing?

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