Abruptio
Abruptio-A mother's worst fear is realized at 23 weeks into the pregnancy, and a baby girl is born at the edge of viability. Melissa Fournier shares her profound grief for her daughter's brief life in these intimate poems that reflect the power of grace to transform sorrow into resilience and hope. EARLY PRAISE:Fournier knits fragments together into the baby's shroud to show us, the readers, the empty home, the mother's weeping breasts, this child Camille Grace, this family, this world, its grief. -Dr. Rita Charon, Columbia University Narrative MedicineMelissa Fournier's poems mirror the presence of her lost child: small, exquisite, unkno…
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Weitere Autoren: Aveningo Sanders, Shawn (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-948461-30-6
- EAN: 9781948461306
- Produktnummer: 31953265
- Verlag: The Poetry Box
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 40 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D0.2 cm 65 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 65
Über den Autor
Melissa Fournier is a wife, mother, and social worker living in Traverse City, Michigan. Her poetry has appeared in Dunes Review, The Sow's Ear Poetry Review, Pulse: Voices from the Heart of Medicine, and Medical Literary Messenger. She is co-editor of AFTER, Stories about Loss and What Comes Next (Barnwood Books, 2019). She has a background in mental health, adult, pediatric and perinatal hospice, is a student of Narrative Medicine, and works as the program director for a non-profit bereavement center, where she continuously dares to choose a life of joy and awe.
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