{"id":11400,"date":"2018-05-31T12:26:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T16:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=11400"},"modified":"2022-11-01T11:45:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T15:45:57","slug":"small-gift-jennifer-franklin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/small-gift-jennifer-franklin\/","title":{"rendered":"No Small Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"

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paper \u2022 110 pages \u2022 15.95
\nISBN-13: 978-1-945588-20-4<\/p>\n

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No Small Gift<\/em><\/h1>\n

Jennifer Franklin<\/h2>\n

Winner of the Beverly Hills Book Award for Poetry, a winner of the 2019 Best Book of Poetry from Pinnacle Awards, and a New York Big Book Award 2019 Distinguished Favorite.<\/h5>\n

Centered on the theme of regaining a voice, the collection manifests poetry’s power to distill meaning from the chaos of trauma.<\/em><\/p>\n

Grave illness, profound disability, and stunning cruelty and betrayal are Franklin’s catalysts in\u00a0No Small Gift:\u00a0<\/em>turning the chaos of her trauma into meaning, rediscovering a voice embedded under sutures and scars, making a whole from rent parts. Unflinching biographical details intersect with fictional and historical\u00a0figures–the mythological personae of Philomela and Lavinia, Vermeer’s tronies and Rodin’s lovers, children killed in the Nazi’s euthanasia program, and other mute victims of abuse and neglect and eyewitness to horror–to animate a collection that proves “every song of grief is still song.”<\/p>\n

“First Love” from No Small Gift<\/em><\/p>\n

The boy beside me
\nis not you but he
\nis familiar in all<\/p>\n

the important ways.
\nI pass through life
\nfinding you over<\/p>\n

and over again\u2014
\noppress you
\nwith love. And<\/p>\n

every surrogate?
\nAfflicted by my
\nkindness, they leave<\/p>\n

me with my music.
\nI loved you before
\nI ever loved you.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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