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OverviewIn these peculiar times, we are thrust back into ourselves in a kind of suspension: one in which only private life exists yet threatens to become trivial through a sense of mutual, overarching dread. Lent from award-winning writer Kate Cayley is built from this tension, exploring domestic and artistic life amidst the environmental crisis and the surprising ways that every philosophical quandary-large and small-converges in the home, in small objects, conversations, and moments. The grotesque and the tedious, the baroque and the banal, intertwine in the first three sections. Meticulous depictions of spectacle run into the repetition of daily domestic life: trying to explain time to children, day trips to the planetarium, and the warnings of strangers; these are interspersed with depictions such as Mary Shelley recalling the monster, the inner life of a seventeenth century portrait sitter, and Ted Hughes's second wife telling her story to the dead Sylvia Plath. The title section explores religious faith; how belief is itself a repetition, a slow accumulation over time, just like love or forgiveness. Lent is an exquisite work of our era, asking us to contemplate what it means to live in a broken world-and why we still find it beautiful. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Kate CayleyPublisher: Book*hug Imprint: Book*hug Weight: 0.117kg ISBN: 9781771668118ISBN 10: 1771668113 Pages: 96 Publication Date: 04 April 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsContents:Part 1: InteriorAttentionIce SheetThe Dream of BodiesObjectsFalling Stone WallLadybug, BratislavaToy RabbitWalkingBlue HousesHauntingPart 2. Art MonstersAssia Wevill Considers Herself:1. Of Sylvia and Turning on the Gas2. She Works in Advertising3. The Sixties4. Abortion5. Tarot Cards6. She Imagines Sylvia Trying to Write7. She Reads Sylvia's Poetry8. In Which Sylvia Has a Vision of the Animals as She Turns on the GasArtDutch Masters:1. Still Life with Seashells, 16982. Still Life with Fruit in a Wan-Li Bowl, 16643. Adriana van Ijlen, 16164. Church of Saint Cecilia, Cologne, about 1670RusalkiBlue View Series (Matthew Wong 1984-2019):1. 12:30 am, 20182. Tracks in the Blue Forest, 20183. Look, the Moon, 20194. Stairway, 20195. The Waiting Room, 20196. The Old World, 2019GlassesJean GrenierMary Shelley at the End of Her Life, Recalling the MonsterThe Light in VermeerPart 3: Sixty HarvestsOf Rats and FloodsMorecambe BeachTrying to Explain Time to ChildrenThe Boys Among the TreesPlanetarium Distancing Red Foot Tortoise, Science CentreHagsSixty HarvestsA ConversationMishima and the Park BenchSemi-lockdownPart 4. LentLentReviewsAuthor InformationKate Cayley is the author of two previous poetry collections, a young adult novel, and two short story collections, including How You Were Born, winner of the Trillium Book Award and shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction. A tenth anniversary edition of How You Were Born is forthcoming from Book*hug Press in 2024. She has also written several plays, both traditional and experimental, which have been performed in Canada, the US, and the UK. She is a frequent writing collaborator with the immersive company Zuppa Theatre. Cayley has won the O. Henry Short Story Prize, the PRISM International Short Fiction Prize, the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction, and a Chalmers Fellowship. She has been a finalist for the K. M. Hunter Award, the Carter V. Cooper Short Story Prize, and the Toronto Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award, and longlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Prize, and the CBC Literary Prizes in both poetry and fiction. In 2021, she won the Mitchell Prize for Faith and Poetry for the title poem in Lent. She has been writer in residence at McMaster University and the Toronto Public Library, and mentored emerging writers through the University of Guelph Creative Writing MFA, the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies, Diaspora Dialogues, and Sisters Writes. Cayley lives in Toronto with her wife and their three children. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |