Landsickness

Landsickness - Paperback

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Landsickness - Paperback

Landsickness - Paperback

by Leigh Lucas
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Book Overview

A lyric essay about young love and loss and the aftermath of a former lover's suicide.

Landsickness explores the inelegant progress of grief and pursues a relentless search for evidence of the beloved's presence through the physics of splashes, the history of seasickness, and the science of depression. While full of tenderness, the poems employ humor and honesty to observe the ugliness of grief and the failure of elegy to restore the dead.

From the funeral to the office of her dead-end job to navigating the streets of New York, the speaker experiences a series of false starts as she learns to cope with her new life. Still, there is a real sense of progression in the collection's end, even as the speaker continues to ask herself: "Why am I obsessed with the physics of his fall?"

ISBN9781961209091
Author Leigh Lucas
PublisherTupelo Press
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedJune 2024
LanguageENG- English
Pages30
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Landsickness

Landsickness - Paperback

Landsickness - Paperback

By Leigh Lucas

About Leigh Lucas

Leigh Lucas holds an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson and a BA from Stanford and lives on the coast of Northern California.

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