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Old Monarch - Poems (Paperback)
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Old Monarch - Poems (Paperback)
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List price R378
Loot Price R311
Discovery Miles 3 110
You Save R67 (18%)
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Some people are like monarch butterflies-solitary by nature, on a
passionate search for somewhere. Critically acclaimed songwriter
Courtney Marie Andrews presents her first poetry collection. This
poetry collection reads like a transformation, me, the narrator,
being the figurative Old Monarch. Documenting this journey, the
book is separated into three sections, "Sonoran Milkweed," "Longing
In Flight," and "Eucalyptus Tree (My Arrival to Rest)." In the
first stage of my journey, I explore my childhood in Arizona, and
the naive assumptions of youth. At this stage in my journey, I am
impressionable, seeing the world with all its nuances for the first
time. Through the landscape of the Sonoran Desert, I explore some
dark family dynamics and what a child sees. Several characters turn
up in the early poems including my cowboy grandpa, and the single
mother who raised me, despite many forthcomings. The early poems
also explore my desire to see a brighter world of possibility
beyond the dusty desert island, and see humans more clearly within
the confounds of discovery. In the second stage, I have left home.
I am falling in love for the first time, as I become a young woman.
Finally, the last stage is the old monarch's arrival to the garden.
There are a lot of metaphysical and philosophical poems in this
section. I arrive at the figurative garden, and I finally
understand the journey at the edge of my life. There are a lot of
poems in the context of a garden here, accepting mortality and the
ever-changing world. These are meant to be wise old woman poems.
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