{"product_id":"recurrent-paperback","title":"Recurrent - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDarla Mottram\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat if the connection, at the root of our existence, is in fact a connection \u003cem\u003eand\u003c\/em\u003e a severance? How does a sense of self form in relation to connections that hold within them such intensive ruptures and slides? How might one redefine family in such a way that severance can live with, not against, the formation of emotional connection? Darla Mottram's extraordinary first book of poems-\u003cem\u003eRECURRENT\u003c\/em\u003e-explores these questions with such generosity and vulnerability. Verse, snapshots with lyric captions, documents (letters, notations from medical records, reports of Children's Services Division), poems in prose, poems as visual fields, dreams, memories, anaphoras, among so much more-this livid variety along with the book's length brings to mind pillowy poetry books by Bernadette Mayer and Alice Notley. In \u003cem\u003eRECURRENT\u003c\/em\u003e, the speakers come to find themselves-through neglect and abandonment, passage through the foster system, and then extended-family adoption-seeking connection and autonomous selves-hood. By the book's end, the reader will come to understand that \"recurrence\" is the rhythm of life we must not only accept but immerse ourselves in. \u003cem\u003eRECURRENT\u003c\/em\u003e is a truly brilliant first book and signals amazing things to come from Mottram.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Jay Ponteri, author of \u003cem\u003eSomeone Told Me\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWedlocked\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eRECURRENT, \u003c\/em\u003e Darla Mottram tells a story of familial abandonment, addiction, sexual abuse, violence, loss, and generational influence through her lyrical poetry, a handful of black-and-white family photographs, notes from foster-care workers, and the full text of a letter that Mottram, age seven, wrote to her mother, \"whereabouts unknown, which was never delivered.\" Calling \u003cem\u003eRECURRENT\u003c\/em\u003e a story is imprecise, but suggests the book's central struggles with time, loss, and meaning-making. Mottram explicitly resists many of the tropes associated with mourning, maintaining that \u003cem\u003eI want to \/ honor \/ what's broken \/ no: silver linings, phoenix rising \/ from ashes, lemons turned lemonade \/ no recovery narrative \/ the poem fails \/ to make understandable \/ what isn't-I don't want to fix it \/ I just want to hold it.\u003c\/em\u003e This book grabbed me: out of trauma and loneliness, Mottram has created a work of insight, beauty, and humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Michele Glazer, author of \u003cem\u003eFretwork \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eOn\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eTact, and the Made Up World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e I don't want to fix it \/ I just want to hold it, Darla Mottram writes in RECURRENT. If a person can do this, can offer the materials of their life to us, in this way (photographs, reports, documents, poems, dreams, nightmares, truths ... no end or beginning to the list), if it can be held and not fixed (as it was never broken or in need of fixing), then what? I read this book and sit back in awe at this question, living in the room with me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Emily Kendal Frey, author of Lovability and Sorrow Arrow\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 134\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.36 x 11 x 8.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 24, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47226419085561,"sku":"9781959118985","price":21.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/H-zr1uYiAD9781959118985.webp?v=1768262900","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/recurrent-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}