Emerald
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- Synopsis
- An elegy to a lost mother, Emerald is the moving new collection from prize-winning poet Ruth Padel‘Here in deep earth, the blackblossom of mourning still sifting within meI remembered that emerald was my birthstone …’Prize-winning poet Ruth Padel’s heartfelt new collection is a grief observed: an elegy for her mother on her death at the age of ninety-seven.Exploring the riches of emerald lore, Padel follows the glint of green – ‘green for awakening / for bringing life back from the dead’ – from memories of her mother, a naturalist, to the black honeycomb of a Colombian emerald mine and sunset-pink of the Emerald City, Jaipur. Beneath everything shines the jewel itself, ‘the only stone in which the flaws are prized’. Beautifully carved and cadenced, Emerald is a moving chronicle of value and loss, and a celebration of all that is precious in the life that remains.
- Copyright:
- 2018
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781473564060
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781784741075
- Publisher:
- Random House
- Date of Addition:
- 11/02/19
- Copyrighted By:
- Ruth Padel
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Poetry, Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.