The Golden Thread (Paperback)

Paperback. Blending the sacred and the everyday, Amali Gunasekeras second collection The Golden Thread is a search for grace through the deep process of transmuting emotional trauma into peace. Gunasekera takes up Muriel Rukeysers famous line: What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open. Her books central sequence, Nine [Miscarried] Methods, considers the challenge of asserting a womans equal status within a patriarchal objectified culture. Approaching the polemic or the existential with a gentle touch, this is poetry as lyric essay, mysterious and shapeshifting as sunlight on water. Formally, the poems explore the instability of the lyric I and the addressed You. Often there is no static vantage point; instead, the I and You are verbs in a state of becoming. Their very unfixity reflects dynamic systems in the natural world where elements are constantly interacting and altering their natures. Blending the sacred and the everyday, Amali Gunasekeras second collection The Golden Thread is a search for grace through the deep process of transmuting emotional trauma into peace. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…