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remember / tidal volume is estimated based on // what’s left in the lung as it closes / remember love is based on tides / as they come in closerAs the COVID-19 pandemic erupted, Jamie was warned by the doctor that due to their underlying health they would not be a priority for critical care treatment. Using the compressed form of a sonnet, they kept rewriting and re-experiencing different voices and identities to explore what it means to face one’s mortality so directly, suddenly, and unexpectedly.This work became a pamphlet, Shield, following Jamie through the grief of facing death while newly married, and into a place of resilience, resistance, and a commitment to creation against mortality.i’d rather die / as i’ve lived as i’ve lived filled with love and / i’d rather die fierce as myself‘These are arresting, heart-stopping poems lit with a rare intensity. Hale’s poems don’t pull any punches, they explore what it is to live in a body and on the way touch the centre of the fragility deep inside all of us. Humane poems that will make you ache.’ – Mona Arshi
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Shield, Michael Hale Ligh, Andrew Case, Jamie Levy, AAron Walters
- Langue
- Année de publication
- 2021
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- (souple)
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- Titre
- Shield
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Michael Hale Ligh, Andrew Case, Jamie Levy, AAron Walters
- Éditeur
- Verve Poetry Press
- Publié
- 2021
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 30
- ISBN10
- 1912565498
- ISBN13
- 9781912565498
- Séries
- Évaluation
- 4,5 sur 5
- Description
- remember / tidal volume is estimated based on // what’s left in the lung as it closes / remember love is based on tides / as they come in closerAs the COVID-19 pandemic erupted, Jamie was warned by the doctor that due to their underlying health they would not be a priority for critical care treatment. Using the compressed form of a sonnet, they kept rewriting and re-experiencing different voices and identities to explore what it means to face one’s mortality so directly, suddenly, and unexpectedly.This work became a pamphlet, Shield, following Jamie through the grief of facing death while newly married, and into a place of resilience, resistance, and a commitment to creation against mortality.i’d rather die / as i’ve lived as i’ve lived filled with love and / i’d rather die fierce as myself‘These are arresting, heart-stopping poems lit with a rare intensity. Hale’s poems don’t pull any punches, they explore what it is to live in a body and on the way touch the centre of the fragility deep inside all of us. Humane poems that will make you ache.’ – Mona Arshi