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Happiness Threads

The Unborn Poems

by (author) Melanie Dennis Unrau

Publisher
J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
Initial publish date
Oct 2022
Category
Canadian
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781990737268
    Publish Date
    Oct 2022
    List Price
    $9.99

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Description

Happiness Threads: The Unborn Poems, Melanie Dennis Unrau's debut collection, is an elegantly spare, thoughtful, and fiercely tenacious meditation on the trials and tribulations of modern motherhood. Written in response to the platitude "Your children are your poetry now," Happiness Threads explores the struggle of a young mother to balance the demands of raising young children with her desire to make art. Unrau wastes neither words nor sentiment; often brief and wonderfully compact, these poems shy away from nothing--delving into every challenge from the onslaught of dirty diapers and spit-up to the despair in the aftermath of a stillbirth.

About the author

Melanie Dennis Unrau is Editor and co-Publisher of Geez magazine. Once a writer of long posts late at night, she now prefers to make art with a group of visual artist mothers who meet in person in Winnipeg. Her writing has appeared in magazines and art shows, and in Exposed, an anthology of emerging Manitoba writers (The Muses' Company, 2002). This is her first collection.

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