A hometown is a data centre \/ where the past is stored<br><br>From a darkly humorous perspective, this book charts a young person\u2019s navigation of narrow definitions of faith, femininity, and family.<br><br>Confronting addiction, compulsions, and anxieties, <i>Full Moon of Afraid and Craving<\/i> explores the strange combination of wonder and longing that makes a life. Across settings rural and urban, Melanie Power\u2019s poems commemorate ordinary moments and everyday characters: a roadside shopkeeper, a neighbourhood linden tree, a great-uncle\u2019s hooch. Interrogating lineage and inheritance, she traces the unsettling shadows that border joy. A series of ambivalent odes pay a winking, Proustian homage to the sense memories of a Roman Catholic millennial upbringing in Newfoundland. The long poem \u201cThe Fever and the Fret,\u201d written during pandemic lockdown in Montreal, considers how we re-examine and consolidate our personal and civic pasts in times of crisis, drawing timely parallels to John Keats\u2019s confinement due to illness exactly two centuries prior.<br><br>At times wry and lighthearted, at others elegiac and plaintive, the voices in these poems are controlled and confident. Just as the stars in the sky are best viewed at night, this collection embraces darkness to illuminate rays of moonlight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Confronting addiction, compulsions, and anxieties, this collection explores the combination of wonder and longing that makes a life. Melanie Power\u2019s poems commemorate ordinary moments and everyday characters \u2013 a roadside shopkeeper, a neighbourhood linden tree, a great-uncle\u2019s hooch \u2013 tracing the unsettling shadows that border joy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":45064,"template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[15894],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-64793","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","5":"product_language-eng-fr","6":"product_subjects-poetry-fr","7":"product_subjects-general-poetry-fr","8":"biblio_share_tag-poetry-general-fr","9":"product_cat-spring-books-fr","10":"entry","12":"first","13":"outofstock","14":"taxable","15":"shipping-taxable","16":"purchasable","17":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n