Cauterized

Cauterize: to burn or freeze the flesh around a wound to stop heavy bleeding. In her sixth full-length collection, award-winning poet Laura Apol returns to themes of loss that are, at least partly, cauterized: her struggles with a conservative religious upbringing, her mother's illness and death, children growing up and leaving home, losing her adult daughter to suicide, a worldwide pandemic, the casualties of age. With startling honesty, empathy, and lyrical precision, Apol offers insight into the ways some wounds need cautery to begin to heal. This is a book that will resonate with anyone who has grappled with the complexities of grief, forgiveness, resilience, and healing across time.

Author: Laura Apol
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Published: 01/01/2024
Pages: 98
Weight: 0.3lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781611864854