Status
Available
Publication
Catapult (2019), 208 pages
Description
Award-winning poet Heather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and must reckon with her own struggles with depression and the birth of her first child. How she faces her joy, grief, anxiety, impending motherhood, and conflicted truce with the world results in a moving meditation on the nature, rapture, and perils of crying--from the history of tear-catching gadgets (including the woman who designed a gun that shoots tears) to the science behind animal tears (including moths who drink them) to the fraught role of white women's tears in racist violence.
User reviews
LibraryThing member lisapeet
A long, complexly braided essay (but a short book) about tears, crying, grief, despair, depression. Which sounds grim but is actually really interesting—it's a subject much on my mind lately, anyway. It's strong on poetry with a little science and history, in good proportions, and the footnotes
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alone are worth the price of admission because they reference so much good material. A thoughtful book, and far less sad than it sounds. Show Less
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
2019-11-05
Physical description
208 p.; 5.25 inches
ISBN
1948226448 / 9781948226448
Local notes
autobiography