Nightshade Mother
A Disentangling
Awdur(on) Gwyneth Lewis
Iaith: Saesneg
Dosbarthiad(au): Biography
- Medi 2024 · 240 tudalen ·216x135mm
- · Clawr Caled - 9781915279903
- · eLyfr - epub - 9781915279927
- · eLyfr - pdf - 9781915279934
Am y llyfr
In this extraordinary memoir, Gwyneth Lewis, the inaugural National Poet of Wales, recounts her toxic upbringing at the hands of her controlling, coercive mother. It is a book that Gwyneth has been preparing to write all her life, in diaries which she’s kept since childhood. In these journals, she interrogates the mother/daughter relationship, in great pain but determined to find a way through.
The result is a book which Gwyneth co-writes with her younger self, an unexpected and life-saving dialogue through time. Metaphors of haunting intensity help her confront what happened to her; quotations from art and literature help to guide and steady her. Nightshade Mother is a book about the power of art, a book about language, and a book about homecoming, after a lifetime of exile from herself. It is a profoundly moving and beautiful work; questing, forgiving and loving in its approach.