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Bezig met laden... You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir (editie 2023)door Maggie Smith (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A very personal, poignant and moving memoir about her divorce, written in short, sometimes even one line, chapters. Some reviews on other sites had a hard time with her authorial intrusions, e.g. "Reader, I'm not going to tell you everything." I found this narrative device, as well as the occasional chapters in third person narration of a play, intrusive and slightly irritating, but (and I may not be correct about this) I attributed these shifts as Smith's own psychological need to briefly distance herself from all the honest pain she was recounting. And so I'll subtract just half a star, as I struggled with the distancing these devices created in me. A memoir written by a poet, filled with patterns and looping motifs, an awareness of literary elements from poetry, drama, and fiction ("a note on character"); she sometimes envisions herself as being in a play, playing the role of the "finder": a wife who finds a postcard to another woman in her husband's briefcase, leading, eventually, to divorce. She writes about her marriage, her work, her miscarriages, her children, social media, therapy, the pandemic, the experience of having a viral poem ("Good Bones"). She writes with honesty but tells the reader when she is holding back. Quotes from other creatives are scattered throughout. Quotes/notes "I am out with lanterns, looking for myself" -Emily Dickinson (epigraph) This is not a tell-all, it is a tell-mine The truth is simple but it is not easy Narrative is knowledge about the future (Sarah Ruhl) A friend says every book begins with an unanswerable question. Then what is mine? A note on foreshadowing inciting incidents betrayal is neat "Good Bones" (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/good-bones) the past is gone but we carry it with us nesting dolls what happens if you don't process what has happened to you? "Picture of My Dress" (Mountain Goats) Smith is a poet and her craft is wonderfully on display in this memoir about the breakdown of her marriage. She explores the gender inequality of invisible labor, but does so with not a technical term in sight. It’s more about finding yourself when you are lost, and how disorienting that process can be. I finished the book with a sense of hope, and a desire to grab a beer with the author and continue the conversation. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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The award-winning poet explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself, interweaving snapshots of a life with meditations on secrets, anger, forgiveness, and narrative itself and revealing how, in the aftermath of loss, we can discover our power and make something beautiful. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)306.89Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Culture and Institutions Marriage and Parenting Divorce & RemarriageLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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I found the writing engaging and powerful and appreciated the author's ability to work around the issue of loss and create something whole in the end. ( )