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Restricted Movement - Softcover

O'dea, Traci

 
9781910895528: Restricted Movement
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1910895520 ISBN 13: 9781910895528
Verlag: Scotland Street Press, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

This explosive collection of poems documents twelve months during the pandemic as Traci O'Dea, living in the Channel Islands, supports her artist father who is overseas in Baltimore struggling with dementia and drug addiction.

Interspersed with the frantic cycle of overdoses, escapes from care, disappearances, and international phone calls are moments of reflection on her father's artwork and her seaside surroundings.

The collection’s structure fluctuates between established poetic forms, loosely iambic letters, and blank verse. In addition to Traci’s poems, the book includes 24 paintings by her father, outsider artist Tommy O’Dea.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Traci O' Dea earned an MA and MFA from Johns Hopkins University. She is a poetry editor for the literary journals Smartish Pace and MOKO: Caribbean Arts and Letters. Her poetry has been published in Poetry Daily, Literary Matters, 32 Poems, The Jersey Evening Post, and elsewhere. This collection is published with the support of ArtHouse Jersey.

Self-taught visionary artist Tommy O'Dea uses as part of his recovery from addiction. He refers to himself as a "glue artist," layering glues and epoxies, creating richly textured surfaces often augmented with acrylic paint, sea glass, and glitter. He is Traci's father. He lives in Baltimore.

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Restricted Movement

No order tells my dad what he can’t do.
You’d think he’d be the one most used to it,
but prison didn’t break him, only made
him value freedom more. He disappears
for days, to prove the laws do not apply
to him. Each time, my heart sours, afizz
like blue-green algae film on stagnant pond.

Neighbours ask if he’s okay. ‘He’s fine,’
I lie, or maybe it’s a prayer. I try
to recollect what it was like before,
what I worried about. Earlier still,
my whole childhood he spent in jail. I slept
just fine back then. I never dreamt of him.
You’d think I’d be the one most used to it.

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Verlag
Scotland Street Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1910895520
ISBN 13 
9781910895528
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O'dea Tommy
Anzahl der Seiten
99
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