Borderline Fortune
Author: Miller, Teresa K.
ISBN: 9780143136811
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 29 Oct 2021
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback / softback
Plt;bPgt;A collection that explores inherited trauma on an individual and communal level, from a National Poetry SeriesP#8211;winning poet who P#8220;refus es the mindP#8217;s limitsP#8221; (Carol Muske-Dukes)Plt;/bPgt;
Plt;bPgt;A collection that explores inherited trauma on an individual and communal level, from a National Poetry SeriesP#8211;winning poet who P#8220;refus es the mindP#8217;s limitsP#8221; (Carol Muske-Dukes)Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;iPgt;Borderline FortunePlt;/iPgt; is a meditation on intangible family inheritanceP#8212;of unresolved intergenerational conflicts and traumas in particularP#8212;set against the backdrop of our planetary inheritance as humans. As species go extinct and glaciers melt, Teresa K. Miller asks what we owe one another and what it means to echo oneP#8217;s ancestorsP#8217; grief and fear. Drawing on her family history, from her great-grandfatherP#8217;s experience as a schoolteacher on an island in the Bering Strait to her fatherP#8217;s untimely death, as well as her pursuit of regenerative horticulture, Miller seeks through these beautifully crafted poems to awaken from the intergenerational trance and bear witness to our current moment with clarity and attention.
ISBN: 9780143136811
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 29 Oct 2021
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback / softback
Plt;bPgt;A collection that explores inherited trauma on an individual and communal level, from a National Poetry SeriesP#8211;winning poet who P#8220;refus es the mindP#8217;s limitsP#8221; (Carol Muske-Dukes)Plt;/bPgt;
Plt;bPgt;A collection that explores inherited trauma on an individual and communal level, from a National Poetry SeriesP#8211;winning poet who P#8220;refus es the mindP#8217;s limitsP#8221; (Carol Muske-Dukes)Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;iPgt;Borderline FortunePlt;/iPgt; is a meditation on intangible family inheritanceP#8212;of unresolved intergenerational conflicts and traumas in particularP#8212;set against the backdrop of our planetary inheritance as humans. As species go extinct and glaciers melt, Teresa K. Miller asks what we owe one another and what it means to echo oneP#8217;s ancestorsP#8217; grief and fear. Drawing on her family history, from her great-grandfatherP#8217;s experience as a schoolteacher on an island in the Bering Strait to her fatherP#8217;s untimely death, as well as her pursuit of regenerative horticulture, Miller seeks through these beautifully crafted poems to awaken from the intergenerational trance and bear witness to our current moment with clarity and attention.
