Complicated Grief
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Description
Poetry. Memoir. "From the internet, I learn that 'complicated grief' designates a bereavement disorder in which, instead of fading with time, the pain of loss remains as acute as it was in the beginning. But from Laura Mullen's book I learn that complicated grief also names something else: not a sufferer's excruciating condition, but a writer's exhilarating achievement. Here, the incapacity to move on from 'old' psychic scenarios has been itself complicated by a formidable prose that not only refuses to get over them but even works to revive them in all their undying (Mullen would say: undead) vigor. To these unstintingly reimagined ancient histories--ranging from fairy tale and yesteryear's news item to childhood trauma and grownup broken heart--Mullen gives all the hyperrealist precision of a dream: every turn and phrase starts at you. And not the least of this book's disconcerting, but strangely salutary, powers is that, under its stimulus, you can't help starting back."--D.A. Miller
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LOC Call Number
PS3563 .U3955 C66 2015
ISBN
9780986235511
Publication Date
2015
Department
Department of English
Publisher
Solid Objects
City
New York
Recommended Citation
Mullen, Laura, "Complicated Grief" (2015).