Orchid Heart Elegies (Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series Book 72)

Reflecting Rilke, these poems capture the blown-apart energy of loss and coalesce it into achingly lyrical lines. What happens when someone we loves dies? __Orchid Heart Elegies__ explores the fragmentation of loss. In luminous poems that echo the Duino Elegies, Zoe Landale – like an edgy, modern-day Rilke – takes the reader to a place of amazement and explores the fragmentation of loss. "Here we stand between one breath / and death asking to be light. What happens when someone we loves dies? Orchid Heart Elegies explores the fragmentation of loss. In luminous poems that echo the Duino Elegies, Zoë Landale - like an edgy, modern-day Rilke - takes the reader to a place of amazement. Enquiring into loneliness and the transformative power of a particular bioregion, Landale's poems use language infused with the consolations of music to enact transformation. Following in the tradition of thousands of years of lyrical poetry, they gently suggest that we can bear our lives, no matter the pain, by means of a sole moment's solace. Capturing the torn, jagged moments of grief and transforming them into poems of deep consolation and healing, Orchid Heart Elegies will appeal to any reader who has lost someone dear to them."-- Provided by publisher Cover 1 Copyright 5 Contents 6 The First Elegy 10 The Second Elegy 16 The Third Elegy 22 The Fourth Elegy 28 The Fifth Elegy 34 The Sixth Elegy 40 The Seventh Elegy 44 The Eighth Elegy 52 The Ninth Elegy 56 The Tenth Elegy 62 Acknowledgments 68 Zoë,Landale,2022,ISBN,978-0-2280-1439-3,(paper),ISBN,978-0-2280-1544-4,(ePDF),ISBN,978-0-2280-1545-1,(ePUB) Zoë Landale 2022,ISBN 978-0-2280-1439-3 (paper),ISBN 978-0-2280-1544-4 (ePDF),ISBN 978-0-2280-1545-1 (ePUB)