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What is Letter That Never about?

Poetry. Imaginary autobiographies of the disappeared, these poems grab us by the throat in a frightening way, yet each is so beautiful that we keep going back to meet another and another. Soon we are bursting with the how strange it is that we survive suffering, and that we transcend. Personal and political, this book astonishes. In LETTER THAT NEVER, the tender project of 'being in charge of a life' joins the poetic project of 'the fracturing of every thought into what pure word.' With each of these 'imagined autobiographies'--unnamed, evocative, formally inventive--Ann Pelletier seeks, seeks to offer, a haunting solace at the edge of forgetting and being forgotten.--Carol Snow Working from disparate materials--from the article 'Children of the Dirty War' (about 'los desparacidos' of Argentina) to A Sierra Club Naturalists Guide--Ann Pelletier has written a riveting series of poem-fragments on themes of departure and return, isolation and community. The result is a striking meditation on lostness--the political and historical, as well as the existential. This is an 'open book, ' a mosaic of possibilities haunted by actuality ('meat-eating bees') and one's own mind. The reader will

Author

Pelletier, Ann, author

Publisher

Word Works; The Word Works

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781944585099

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities