Diaspora of Things by Jill Pearlman

Diaspora of Things, an extended poetic sequence, digs into the world of emotional artifacts, as a means to negotiate one’s relationship with the dead.  When the house is sold, the poet excavates her mother’s mute collection of objects, as if after a shipwreck and searching for clues that might leap across and bridge the silence.  In grief, our deepest values are exposed, questioned, and asserted -–touching upon the nature of art at the core of survival itself.  Portrait, auto-portrait, Diaspora of Things engages in phenomenology, as yearning and a gesture towards acceptance.

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