Description
Lithic Press, paperback
Publication Date: February 28, 2024
Publisher Marketing: Powerful First Full-Length Collection of Poems from Trish Hopkinson. A GODLESS ASCENDS is the full-length collection of poems by Trish Hopkinson. In this intensely personal collection the poet’s close attention to language propels the narrative and brings its scenes to life: I see her mother writing essays in college; I see the poet telling her daughter, do not mistake urgency for love; I see her watching over her injured son in his hospital bed. These poems produce an aura of the mystical nature of making a family and keeping it together while remaining true to the poet’s creative life. “Like the screech owl, Trish Hopkinson’s work hardens itself in order to keep its insides soft. There’s a Plathian urgency to these poems, reminding us that memory has taste buds, ancestry is complicated and life, like poetry, is grounded in physicality.”–Wendy Videlock, author of Wise to the West Poetry. Women’s Studies.
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