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Tag: illness

Boundary pushing, genre reshaping

“While the detail in these poems can be distressing, the writer has shown in-depth feeling and in-depth writing that cannot be denied, but laid out, shared, even while the narrator is sometimes wildly enraged.” —Cathy Ford reviews allostatic load, by Junie Désil (Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2025) $18.95 / 9781772016062

Here With Us In This Home

As the narrator faces a parent’s progressive illness, she’s beset by memories of a childhood “at the bottom tip of Africa” and adult knowledge about the legacies of Apartheid. —“Here With Us In This Home,” an essay by Deborah Vieyra

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