Author : Callie Siskel
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324073683
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)
Book Synopsis Two Minds: Poems by : Callie Siskel
Download or read book Two Minds: Poems written by Callie Siskel and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a piercing and beautiful elegy for the poet’s father, this debut volume investigates the enduring pain and transformative potential of grief. Does loss define us, or do we define loss? Tracing the duality of grief as it reverberates through a family, Callie Siskel wrestles with questions of identity and inheritance in precise, lucid poetry. Two Minds indulges and therefore exposes the vanity of turning private pain into art and the pursuit of self-revelation. Drawing on ekphrasis, ars poetica, and the prose poem, Siskel expands the elegiac genre as she oscillates between childhood and adulthood, art and mythology, as well as the natural and domestic world. At once cerebral and emotional, Two Minds is an essential meditation on the ways that loss cleaves and doubles our perceptive power.