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Sign Language for the Death of Reason

Linda Collins

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Sign Language for the Death of Reason

by Linda Collins
Sign Language for the Death of Reason
Sign Language for the Death of Reason

Poetic journey through grief's stark, beautiful landscape.

If you've ever had to navigate the treacherous waters of loss, "Sign Language for the Death of Reason" offers a resonant voice amid the silence of sorrow. Linda Collins crafts a hauntingly beautiful tapestry of words that reflect the complexities of grieving a loved one — with raw emotion, a touch of the ethereal, and a poignant search for hope in the heart of despair. It's a lyrical exploration that might just echo the thoughts and feelings struggling to find their way out of your own heart.

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Sign Language for the Death of Reason

by Linda Collins
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ISBN: 9789811498039
Author: Linda Collins
Publisher: Math Paper Press
Date of Publication: 2021-01-01
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Poetry
Goodreads rating: 4.0
(rated by 27 readers)

Description

Sign Language for the Death of Reason tries to make sense of a post-traumatic life in poems that are mesmerising in their beauty and stark truthfulness. Sign Language is Linda Collins’s poetic response to her memoir, Loss Adjustment, about the death by suicide of her daughter, Victoria. Set in a dreamy state of irrationality and unreality, where nothing is certain and yet, hope of certainty persists, a narrator who could be Collins, and a persona who could be Victoria, explore loss and love, from the longing arising from bereavement or loss of identity, to sexual yearning, and survivor grief. Along the way, two women evolve in their relationships, though one is dead, or is she? If the self is a construct of history, who is this spectral creature haunting the living? My heart is calm, beats slowly. All life’s doing is done. Birds are at eye level. How easy it would seem to fly a while with them. Then descend. Did you imagine leaf-tipped bark arms reaching to carry you to the next world?
 

Poetic journey through grief's stark, beautiful landscape.

If you've ever had to navigate the treacherous waters of loss, "Sign Language for the Death of Reason" offers a resonant voice amid the silence of sorrow. Linda Collins crafts a hauntingly beautiful tapestry of words that reflect the complexities of grieving a loved one — with raw emotion, a touch of the ethereal, and a poignant search for hope in the heart of despair. It's a lyrical exploration that might just echo the thoughts and feelings struggling to find their way out of your own heart.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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