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An extraordinary collection of endurance and transformation by the award-winning author of Bestiary

The Renunciations is a book of resilience, survival, and the journey to radically shift one’s sense of self in the face of trauma. Moving between a childhood marked by love and abuse and the breaking marriage of that adult child, Donika Kelly charts memory and the body as landscapes to be traversed and tended. These poems construct life rafts and sanctuaries even in their most devastating conf...

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Poetry Awards American Poetry General & Miscellaneous Poetry 21st Century American Poetry African American Poetry Poetry - General & Miscellaneous American poetry->Women authors->21st century American poetry->African American authors->21st century American poetry->African American women authors American poetry->21st century 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists National Book Critics Circle Awards Previous Finalists - National Book Critics Circle Awards Other Awards Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Previous Winners - Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - 2020s 2022 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards

The Renunciations: Poems

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