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    612-822-4611

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Something Dark to Shine In

Something Dark to Shine In

Pujos, Inès

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1951979257
ISBN13: 9781951979256
Publisher: Sundress Publications
Published: Nov 30 2021
Pages: 74
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.15 Width: 8.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

In Something Dark to Shine In, trauma manifests in body horror. Skin strips away from flesh; blood stains floorboards; and teeth fall out to become toys. Death and religion hover constantly in the background of this haunting and haunted collection, even as the speaker reminds herself, I am not dead yet. Faced with the alienation and the horror of sexual violence, these poems resist the impulse to romanticize. Here, rot is marked by a black wool of flies, soil is laced with chips of plates or lead paint, and feral wolf-women refuse to be tamed. The classically beautiful becomes frightening such that a bee's sweet honey is a reminder of the pain of their sting, and a golden crucifix is a symbol only of a calvary's violence. Something Dark to Shine In refuses to look away from pain, from violence, yet to read these poems in a world where such atrocities become banal and commonplace, is to witness a profound refusal to die, a wish to find beauty, and even hope, in one's own terror.

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