The Threshold of Broken Waters is a memoir in verse that highlights the life-changing influence of significant events in which pregnancy and birthing are presented as metaphors for poetry writing. The book is based on the sublimation of the mnemonic traces that sustain growth and extends the birthing metaphor to the migration and water crises of our contemporary world.
Momentum
I rise into my breath and remark
A caterpillar's change into a monarch
As it inflates its diaphanous wings for heft
And waits before it glides with the draft.
Into my lungs' labyrinth my breath curls
To become the voice that unfurls
Into a poem whose tears fortify my identity.
To merge with the world's fury is insanity.
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Emily Bilman is London Poetry Society's Stanza representative in Geneva where she lives and writes literary essays and poetry. Her poems and essays have been published in The Battersea Review, Hunger Mountain, The High Window, The Inspired Heart, San Diego Poetry Annual, The Journal of Poetics Research, Offshoots, and The London Magazine. The Tear-Catcher won the first prize in The New York Literary Magazine. She blogs on www.emiliebilman.wix.com/emily-bilman
Title: The Threshold of Broken Waters
Author: Emily Bilman
ISBN: 9781789013801
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Publisher: Troubador Publishing
Publication Date: 2018-09-28
Number of Pages: 92
Weight: 0.1720 kg