Frayed Linens

Marilyn Bowering casts the poet as a traveler, and Frayed Linens is a poet’ s exorcism of the nightmares that haunt today’ s world. She writes of beauty and resilience within darkness, from the ruins of Greece to the horrors of Mariupol, showing how History echoes itself at every turn. She is accompanied in these poems by ancestral and mythic figures, beloved poets, and the ghosts of her own life-story as the body and spirit – the frayed linens of the title – are worn and renewed over time....