Body on the Wall
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (806 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0991395204 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 104 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-21 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Untangling the many threads that make up a life, Wing writes about being a daughter, violence against women and girls, mental illness, her identity as a lesbian, her love for her wife, and the search for spiritual direction.. Body on the Wall ranges from eroticism to domestic abuse, from self-mutilation to Zen, from coming out to domestic love
-- Zara Raab, Poets' Quarterly. "These deeply intense and personal pieces could possibly unhinge a whole web of emotions, except that they're each so beautifully crafted and considerate in their plea for a collectively healed wisdomLike a closely-knit blanket, Wing has expertly covered us with her unabashed intimacy, where we find ourselves looking out through the different colors of yarn, at a world cloaked with heaviness, but flooded with light" - The California Journal of Women WritersWing, who is known in the non-literary world for her work with victims of domestic violence, writes as a compassionate observer: A woman comes into a women's shelter, her "face purpled with blows," but though she has been here before, she refuses to press charges or leave her abuserShe is a poet of advocacy for the do
Marguerite Maria Rivas said Dang Good Read. Now, how to describe Michelle Wing's book of poems, Body on the Wall? Lyrical yet fierce? (Yes, I know, I know "lyrical" is an overused book review cliché, but when something actually is lyrical you have to say so, no?) Lovely, wistful and startling? Yep. Honest god's tru. Away with Pain Michelle Wing's Body On The Wall deserves to be savored, read slowly, thought about and read again. Instead, each reading finds me compelled to move through the poems one at a time, sequentially, following the components of Wind, Fire, Earth and Water rather relentlessly. I try . "A Book for the Rest of your Life" according to lovewords. I read the first half of Michelle Wing's soul/heart writing before turning off the light last night. I didn't sleep well, going over and over the exquisite phrasing of the pain of her life. Tonight, after dinner, I read three of her poems to my husband: How I Became a Poet, Walk
Wing writes a monthly literary column for the online edition of Sonoma West Publishing called Off the Page. She is the author of Body on the Wall (poems), released by Saddle Road Press in May 2014, and co-editor of the anthology Cry of the Nightbird: Writers Against Domestic Violence, released by WolfSinger Publications