The Body's Alphabet
Tweedy, Ann
WINNER OF THE BI BOOK AWARD "Home is the structure you build when nowhere else will have you, " writes Ann Tweedy in this gutsy, no-nonsense collection of poems built on a precarious and often tender journey through homes no longer available to return to. The result is neither sadness nor nostalgia, it is hard, clean narrative of self-preservation and survival, fitted with unexpected joy. I feel such kinship with these poems, their testament t...