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The Threshold of Broken Waters is a memoir in verse that highlights the life-changing influence of significant events in which pregnancy and birthing are presented as metaphors for poetry writing. The book is based on the sublimation of the mnemonic traces that sustain growth and extends the birthing metaphor to the migration and water crises of our contemporary world.

Momentum

I rise into my breath and remark

A caterpillar’s change into a monarch

As it inflates its diaphanous wings for heft

And waits before it glides with the draft.

Into my lungs’ labyrinth my breath curls

To become the voice that unfurls

Into a poem whose tears fortify my identity.

To merge with the world’s fury is insanity.

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    A Paperback / softback by Emily Bilman

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      Publisher: Troubador Publishing
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 28/09/2018
      ISBN13: 9781789013801, 978-1789013801
      ISBN10: 1789013801

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The Threshold of Broken Waters is a memoir in verse that highlights the life-changing influence of significant events in which pregnancy and birthing are presented as metaphors for poetry writing. The book is based on the sublimation of the mnemonic traces that sustain growth and extends the birthing metaphor to the migration and water crises of our contemporary world.

      Momentum

      I rise into my breath and remark

      A caterpillar’s change into a monarch

      As it inflates its diaphanous wings for heft

      And waits before it glides with the draft.

      Into my lungs’ labyrinth my breath curls

      To become the voice that unfurls

      Into a poem whose tears fortify my identity.

      To merge with the world’s fury is insanity.

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