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- Bough Down is a collection of poetry and small mixed media collages, created by Karen Green. It was published in 2013 and won the Believer Poetry Award the same year. In her book, Green explores how contradictory emotions can coexist and processes these sentiments through her prose and art.
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Apr 30, 2013 · This is an emotionally devastating book, a beautiful, intrepid, and aching journey through Karen Green’s grief following the suicide of her husband, David Foster Wallace. Green intersperses fragmented art pieces with her elegiac poetry, forging further depth and space for cavernous grief.
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Jun 5, 2013 · Bough Down is a collection of prose poems interspersed with small collages, in which Green charts her "passage through grief", said small US publisher Siglo Press, which...
- Alison Flood
Dec 19, 2013 · Despite its collage-like composition, Bough Down does have a narrative arc: it adheres loosely to the five classic stages of grief as it moves gradually and painstakingly toward the sea: “March, pace, slog, storm. Trudge, progress.
Bough Down is a collection of poetry and small mixed media collages, created by Karen Green. It was published in 2013 and won the Believer Poetry Award the same year. In her book, Green explores how contradictory emotions can coexist and processes these sentiments through her prose and art.
- Karen Green
- 2013
- English
- Siglio Press
Green’s first book, Bough Down (2013), is a mixture of poetry and visual art about the loss of her husband, the writer David Foster Wallace. It features exquisite...
Aug 20, 2013 · Bough Down is a collage of text and image surrounding life and death and the ways in which Art or Literature fail to save us collectively. If Green’s book feels inevitable, it is also surprisingly confessional, painfully vital in its affirmation: Nothing will save a life, not even suicide.
The book consists of a series of prose poems, or individuated chunks of poetic prose, interspersed with postage-stamp-sized collages made by Green, who is also a visual artist. Collectively the text bears witness to the 2008 suicide of her husband … and its harrowing aftermath for Green.
