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The Blue Wife Poems
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639801787
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Sep 23 2022
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
- Donna Hilbert, author of Threnody
I've read a lot of books about depression, but few as hauntingly accurate as Hayley Mitchell Haugen's The Blue Wife Poems. Refusing simple explanations, Haugen instead takes us inside both the body and the brain. Finding words where words most often fail, the poet recreates the darkness that surrounds, engulfs, flees, circles back, continues. Through startling imagery, mesmerizing cadence, and the repetitions of villanelle and sonnet sequence, Haugen leads us through the nightmare horror and haze of medications, molestation, and society's often unhelpful response to mental illness - and women sufferers in particular. And, yet, where hope...is the firefly. . . too fleeting to light the way, this writer gives us poems to see by.
- Marjorie Maddox, author of Heart Speaks, Is Spoken For
In the Blue Wife Poems, Hayley Mitchell Haugen enters the house of depression armed with the rough truth of flatness, a blade used to cut and be cut by, like when the yellow butterfly snap closed its wings and revealed a shock of blue. These poems feel like what you see after your last round of chemo, silver-blue metaphors dying on bones they once called home. Sadness cannot afford these poems not in the market where madness and miracle secretly meet to exchange
notes that find their way into your hands.
- Daniel Edward Moore author of Boys and Waxing the Dents
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