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Overview"Love is the elixir which heals. Love offers dignity and connection and allows room for the most potent and challenging of reparations: forgiveness. Like a double-exposed photograph, the language in Arbor Vitae, ""the tree of life,"" offers a delicate ribboning of shifting perspectives. The narration is activated as a witness, as consciousness is observed, and trespasses a ""bare view"" of a multilayered landscape. Here, a pensive topography of solitude and loss unfolds. This book-length pastoral poem seeks accountability and compassion for institutional and political trauma. Recent and historic human rights abuses merge to encompass a devastation that imprints the collective psyche. The scenery is the source, as Whitman writes, ""the smallest sprout... goes onward and outward, nothing collapses."" Arbor Vitae, in a dream state, from the shores of Guantanamo to the unfiltered ""sun sun-burnished pines"" of the multi-continental holocaust, seeks hope, seeks language as a root or a sapling that might break through the asphalt. Over amends for the disgrace for of human rights abuses -voices merge in a textural elegiac for what might lift upward-unfurling leaves, harnessed, toward that one push into a great light." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Maureen AlsopPublisher: Nauset Press Imprint: Nauset Press Dimensions: Width: 13.30cm , Height: 0.40cm , Length: 20.30cm Weight: 0.091kg ISBN: 9781962890007ISBN 10: 1962890007 Pages: 72 Publication Date: 26 October 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |