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PALEOTEMPESTOLOGY IBD

C&R PRESS
03 / 2019
9781936196982
Inglês

Sinopse

Paleotempestology, as no one would know, is the study of storms and the central theme rippled throughout Bertha Isabel Crombet&rsquo,s debut collection. Beginning, very literally, with a poem titled &ldquo,Waiting for Hurricane Irma&rdquo, in which she wishes for a &ldquo,fresh disaster to eclipse [her] old one&rdquo,, she sets the precedent for the entire book, which goes on to explore emotional turbulence in it&rsquo,s myriad forms, including heartbreak, memory, and myth. Presented with both whimsy and wit, fear and candor, imagination and certainty, and all via the lens of a Cuban-American woman navigating the often funny and treacherous landscape of dating in the modern world, the poems churn and churn to reveal how both grief and hope can coexist.