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Soft Inheritance - Paperback

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by Fawn Parker (Author)

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.

Author Biography

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 Andr Forget's After Realism, (Vhicule, 2022). Fawn is a PhD student at the University of New Brunswick and her work is represented by Ron Eckel at CookeMcDermid Agency.

Number of Pages: 80
Dimensions: 0.5 x 8.1 x 5.6 IN
Publication Date: September 16, 2023

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