Donna Aza Weir-Soley: Love in a Season of Dying, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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A stunning third collection of poetry from Donna Aza Weir Soley, which focuses on love, loss, forgiveness, resilience and redemption. The framing of Donna Aza Weir-Soley's collection is time, the moral necessity of human connection and its fragility through human difference. Writing in her maturity, time is the present of learnt experience when you know there are men who " will pickle you/ in a jar of formaldehyde/ to store against future impotence, / cankerous seasons/ imminent dissolutions, / loveless marriages" . Time is also the coming to terms with those earlier selves who shaped the person you are: the person who in youth lived through migrancy from Jamaica to the USA, of being " light years away from my tribe" and the feeling of homelessness that can result in " clogged, septic longing" . Beyond the self, is an acknowledgement of the condition of the tribe through the time that reaches down into the past centuries of Black suffering, that leaves the poet wondering " Perhaps we are soul-tired, / and stay down longer/ after being knocked to the ground" . But time can heal too, when with a once estranged father, " like dew my outrage evaporates/ in your sun-hot love."