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Soft inheritance / Fawn Parker.

by Parker, Fawn, 1994-

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Palimpsest Press, 2023.

Canadian poetry -- 21st century.

J.M. Abraham Poetry Award.

9781990293528 (pbk.)

"In her exceptional poetic debut, Fawn Parker meditates on grief, illness, and the open-handed relationship between material objects and memory. Written after her mother was diagnosed with cancer, 'Soft Inheritance' follows the poet's rapidly evolving reality where 'kindness is a scar,' though 'not all scar-makers are kind.' Both a treatise on the sick body and the state of 'after' -- post-caretaking, post-breakup, post-moving, and post-death -- these poems question what is inherited, and ask what can safely be left behind. A diamond ring? A cancerous gene? 'Soft Inheritance' is a finely crafted love letter to the people and places that imprint on a life."--Back cover.

Fawn Parker is a Giller-nominated author of five books including the forthcoming Hi, it's me (McClelland & Stewart 2024). Her story “Feed Machine” was nominated for the 2020 McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize and her story “Wunderhorse II” was anthologized in André Forget’s After Realism, (Véhicule, 2022). Fawn is a PhD student at the University of New Brunswick and her work is represented by Ron Eckel at CookeMcDermid Agency.

Winner of the J.M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award, 2024.

Canadian poetry.

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