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Something Like Forgiveness

Something Like Forgiveness

Schumejda, Rebecca
McCreesh, Hosho

Paperback

General ArtGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1950380378
ISBN13: 9781950380374
Publisher: Stubborn Mule Press
Published: Jun 3 2019
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

This full-color poetry book by Rebecca Schumejda features a single long-form poem about the incarceration of her brother and its rippling effects across their family. Includes artworks by Hosho McCreesh.

How do you forgive the unforgivable? This is the question Rebecca Schumejda wrestles with, on a grand scale, in this emotionally taut, tightly structured, intensely personal poem. Using a slow reveal, the poet dispenses morsels of information, with regard to the nature of the crime, and her struggles with coping with her love for her brother who committed it and, finally, the heinous nature of what he did, until we learn, as well, what happened. She asks, among the many effective refrains, What if you had died that night? Somehow life could have been easier if he had. Maybe. I know how she feels. I've been there: different relative, similar crime. Something Like Forgiveness is not simply a must read, it is an experience.
--Alan Catlin, poet, editor
Misfit Magazine

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