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Broken Sleep (Paperback)
$11.31 - Save $1.25 (9%) - RRP $12.56 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for Broken SleepA collection of poems that move from the very earliest and most delicate stages of life, to the many adjustments of adulthood. It features a cycle of poems from a mother to her baby, moving from the uncertainty and awe at the discovery of a pregnancy, through the ecstasy of early motherhood.
Full description- Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Published: 10 May 2009
- Format: Paperback 64 pages
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- Categories: Poetry By Individual Poets
- ISBN 13: 9781852248451 ISBN 10: 1852248459
- Sales rank: 341,039
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Full description for Broken Sleep
Intimate and truthful, the poems in Sally Read's second collection move from the very earliest and most delicate stages of life, to the many adjustments of adulthood. Always startlingly honest, the pains of closeness and separation, love and mortality are dealt with in unflinching and transforming ways. "Broken Sleep" is a cycle of poems from a mother to her baby, moving from the uncertainty and awe at the discovery of a pregnancy, through the ecstasy of early motherhood. It charts, with tenderness, the child's development from fetus in the dark, to walking, talking toddler in a bewildering and exciting world. The poems comprise a hymn and an elegy to the experience of pregnancy and early motherhood. The second part of the book, "The Glass Eye", moves swiftly into a world where loss, whether of a loved one, a breast, or simply innocence, is countered by extraordinary kinds of redemption. Whether conjuring angels, music, or lies these pieces offer a sometimes disturbing but always marvelous alternative to the unavoidable blackness behind the glass eye.
