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Sea Melodies (Cards)
Jessica Le
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Portraying a parent's experience of coming to terms with the new
and frightening world of mental health care, this narrative
explores the myriad foreign ways of diagnosis and treatment.
Written from a mother's perspective, the poetic sequence displays
the anguish and complexity of dealing with mental illness,
describing the events of an ordinary family--the numerous visits to
doctors, the treatments that don't work, and the people who
suddenly have answers and heartbreaking histories of their own to
tell. At the heart of the book lies an outstanding set of poems
about electroconvulsive therapy, leading up to a concluding
revelation that mental illness may have no solutions, but there are
ways of living with it. As stark and powerful as it is healing and
illuminating, this is a groundbreaking addition to the field of New
Zealand poetry.
Relaxed and intimate, engaging and wise, ""Incognito"" is Jessica
Le Bas's first book. Her poems have been carefully collected but
are wonderfully various. Themes, characters and voices come and go
as the poet moves in and out of identities and roles - sometimes
known, sometimes incognito - discovering new world views, new
horizons, whole new windows of observations. ""Incognito"" is
crammed with people recognised and specific: children, family,
friends, the arrival of a new baby. But Jessica Le Bas is also
openly lyrical about the New Zealand landscape and its human
clutter and writes hills and wind, sheds and roads, headlands and
valleys. ""Incognito"" is an intensely New Zealand book, not least
in its journey outward in the final sections - to Malindi,
Shenandoah, Zagreb - and its affectionate return home.
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