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Dressing the Bear - by Susan L Leary (Paperback)

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  • Winner of the 2023 Louise Bogan Award, Susan L. Leary's Dressing the Bear is a collection of poems composed in the wake of her brother's passing that explores the themes of love, loss, grief, longing, and addiction.
  • Author(s): Susan L Leary
  • 94 Pages
  • Poetry, Subjects & Themes

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"...Susan L. Leary's Dressing the Bear is a collection of poems composed in the wake of her brother's passing that explores the themes of love, loss, grief, longing, and addiction. Many of these poems come in the form of a direct address to her brother: how to speak to the dead now? How to convince herself of her brother's continuation in the next life? Of equal concern is the matter of love: what kind of love exists between a brother and a sister, between the addict and those who love him? More than anything, however, these poems seek to unravel her brother's wounds, to understand his pride and shame as a result of addiction, as well as to honor and illuminate his unique wisdom-his charm, his humor, and his creativity-that on even his most difficult days was always there."--



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Winner of the 2023 Louise Bogan Award, Susan L. Leary's Dressing the Bear is a collection of poems composed in the wake of her brother's passing that explores the themes of love, loss, grief, longing, and addiction. Many of these poems come in the form of a direct address to her brother: how to speak to the dead now? How to convince herself of her brother's continuation in the next life? Of equal concern is the matter of love: what kind of love exists between a brother and a sister, between the addict and those who love him? More than anything, however, these poems seek to unravel her brother's wounds, to understand his pride and shame as a result of addiction, as well as to honor and illuminate his unique wisdom-his charm, his humor, and his creativity-that on even his most difficult days was always there.



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"From the pen of one who has known loss, the fearless poems in Dressing the Bear look from many angles at how the 'world. . . takes you hostage.' But this is not a book about grief; it is the act itself. The poet grieving, laments the limits of language even as Leary pushes them. Among the tangles of remembering and enough blame to go around, she invites us to moments of transcendence: her brother 'stretching the ghost of his boyhood into a god, ' 'a holiness at the end of day. . . like waning light looking back at me, ' and 'birds. . . washing their feathers with water from our eyes.' Find in these poems an ache much like the one you harbor, a search for 'afterglow, ' and small promises of new light."


- Kimberly Blaeser, author of Ancient Light, Wisconsin Poet Laureate 2015-16


"There is nothing faint-hearted in Susan L. Leary's, Dressing the Bear, a book-length elegy to her dead brother. These are poems made from grief, from the 'mercy of animation, ' from bones, wings, water, and a 'dress sand-colored with splotches of blue.' Leary writes directly into the pain of her brother's addiction, incarceration, and death. She does not seek ease; she seeks the grief itself and asserts that 'a body is built to be antagonized by God.' Yet, this gorgeous book, that made me weep, teaches that the only way out of pain is through, and Leary moves through: fearlessly, with beauty."


- Jessica Cuello, author of Yours, Creature


"Grief is deeply strange and disorienting and life altering. This collection of poems, dedicated to a lost brother, unfolds the sorrow we are often taught to bottle up. In this impressive book, Leary balances on that wary edge between mourning and imagination, between moving forward and rewinding the past. These elegies absorb and concede the finality of death while miraculously keeping the beloved brother present and pulsing."

- Matt Rasmussen, author of Black Aperture, winner of the Walt Whitman Award/Finalist for the National Book Award


Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x .23 Inches (D)
Weight: .33 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: Subjects & Themes
Genre: Poetry
Number of Pages: 94
Publisher: Trio House Press
Theme: Death, Grief, Loss
Format: Paperback
Author: Susan L Leary
Language: English
Street Date: July 1, 2024
TCIN: 1002684812
UPC: 9781949487237
Item Number (DPCI): 247-03-0031
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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