Bøker av Mallory Nygard

"Unravel the heartthreads / binding me / to this world's weights."The poems in this collection explore the ways the stories we have been told - particularly the stories that underpin and inform our spirituality - can be retold, reimagined, and reworked in light of the experience of women in the twenty-first century. This collection focuses on stories passed down through generations, the rich and varied ways we confront death, and our attempts to reach out into the knotted-up mess of relationships and preconceptions to find what is actually true. Truth needs to be felt, spoken, and shared.

Written partly in response to the clerical sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church, the poems in this collection are an exploration of what it means to have faith, membership, sin, expectation, freedom, and culpability. These poems speak to long-silent suffering and serve as a call for people in positions of leadership - as well as individuals in their own life - to ask how they can live more fully.