Bread Of Paperback 1942723105 9781942723103 Gabrielle Joy Lessans

<p>Gabrielle Joy Lessans's debut poetry collection Bread Of revisits buried and often mortifying memories of self-mutilation, emotional abuse, drug use, sexual assault, social pressure, and misery as a means of self-excavation. In this way, the autobiographical Bread Of is a multilayered processing of shame that feeds on itself when left untended. The book's vertical movement can be understood as a quest of sorts, a way of reckoning with and integrating a lost iteration of self. With tenderness and humor, Lessans invites us to share in a return that builds page by page--each centering a text that questions what a poem can be--into an unflinching exploration of what it means to occupy a body that simultaneously falls through and takes up space, a body that carries memory in its tissue, not only of lived experience, but also of an ancient and internal sense of Divinity. </p><p><br></p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Gabrielle Joy Lessans<br><b>Publisher:</b> Ornithopter Press<br><b>Published:</b> 05/11/2021<br><b>Pages:</b> 80<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.34lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.17d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9781942723103