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This is Yarrow
This is Yarrow | Tara Bergin
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The poems in Dublin-born poet and translator Tara Bergins debut collection combine sensuous lyricism with the unsettling familiarity of folklore, fairy tale, and dream. They are inhabited by characters who seem at first widely different from one another yet share nervous energy and a troubled state of mind. Bergin gathers language from a wide range of sources and places to create a music and vision entirely her own.
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Dilara Thank you for this post! I hadn't come across this poem before, but it speaks to me 😁 8mo
IndoorDame @Dilara I‘m so glad! Poetry is magic that way every once in a while ❤️ 8mo
TheSpineView Wonderful!💜 8mo
dabbe Love! 🧡💜🧡 8mo
IndoorDame @dabbe 💜💜💜 8mo
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TheSpineView 👍😍😊 3y
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My first thoughts? "I wonder if this is what to find oneself suddenly unexpectedly dead would be like." It's bewildering. There are dreamlike pieces and others that might be snippets of memory. Wounded soldiers recur. Tsvetaeva studies a mural in a church days before her suicide. Wild plants and their folk usages stitch the whole together. Few individual poems grabbed me but as a whole, esp. on a second read, they become more compelling. #poetry