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Because: A Lyric Memoir
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About Because: A Lyric Memoir
Finalist for the 2018 Governor General's Literary Award in poetry "[Because] is a rare and remarkable text. Although it deals unswervingly with abuse, violations of trust and the deeply damaging effect of both of these, it is also literary, powerful and consoling. . . . A deeply achieved record of human truth, earned at cost and beautifully expressed." -- Eavan Boland Because is a narrative long poem that explores, with vividness and precision, the shifting and uncertain landscapes of the author's childhood memory. Propelled by the word "because," Mensch's poem is a litany for a damaged childhood whose retelling unfolds through a series of precise, jewel-like scenes. As generous and empathetic as it is unsparing, Because bears witness to the author's experience of an abuse that continued for many years. Unflinchingly clear-eyed in its account, Because explores the vulnerabilities and dangers of childhood in a way that succumbs neither to self-pity nor platitudes, but instead finds consolation in the healing power of its own narrative act.
