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ISBN: 978-1-954245-25-9
eISBN: 978-1-954245-37-2
September 2022 \u2022 Poetry<\/p>\n
Add to Cart<\/a><\/p>\n [\/column]<\/p>\n [column col=”3\/4″]<\/p>\n Hewing close to the bone, the incendiary poems in The Listening Skin<\/em> explore how an artist dares to dance and create through a pain-riddled body. Corporeal and spiritual, immediately personal and deeply historical, Redmond\u2019s latest collection details how generational cycles of poverty, mental and physical illness, and systemic racism impact the self, the family, and the greater African-American collective. Examining the connection between adverse childhood experiences and adult chronic conditions, Redmond\u2019s poems arise from her deepest listening, beyond the skin, rooted in the marrow. They speak to the hardship of enduring fibromyalgia and the ongoing challenges of multiple myeloma while rejoicing in survival and the grace of existence itself. Yes, The<\/em>\u00a0Listening Skin<\/em> affirms life and demands the dignity its speaker deserves: \u201cI am full of this past present heat \/ I carry. \/ I come to the shore, \/ but I vacate nothing.\u201d This consummate work honors embodied knowledge, all that\u2019s heard at the boundary between flesh and air, vacating nothing, determinedly and brilliantly whole.<\/p>\n “Make No Apologies for Yourself,” from\u00a0The Listening Skin<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [column col=”1\/4″] paper \u2022 140 pages \u2022 $17.95ISBN: 978-1-954245-25-9eISBN: 978-1-954245-37-2September 2022 \u2022 Poetry Add to Cart [\/column] [column col=”3\/4″] The Listening Skin Glenis Redmond Hewing close to the bone, the incendiary poems in The Listening Skin explore how an artist dares to dance and create through a pain-riddled body. Corporeal and spiritual, immediately personal and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16934","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16934"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20480,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16934\/revisions\/20480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The Listening Skin<\/em><\/h1>\n
Glenis Redmond<\/h2>\n
Dear you, make no apologies for yourself
because you are covered in a listening skin
Because every ache you feel is not your own
Because of the bowl of sorrow your mother carries
Because of your father\u2019s wildfire moods
Because of how many rivers they crossed
Because of the lynching tree
Because when you enter bookstores
volumes fall off shelves into your open palms
Because you ask questions of the universe
and it answers and opens before you like a page...
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