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Book

The crying book

Call Number

  • 811 C5557 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Catapult, [2019]

Physical Description

vi, 200 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Summary

Award-winning poet Heather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and must reckon with her own struggles with depression and the birth of her first child. How she faces her joy, grief, anxiety, impending motherhood, and conflicted truce with the world results in a moving meditation on the nature, rapture, and perils of crying--from the history of tear-catching gadgets (including the woman who designed a gun that shoots tears) to the science behind animal tears (including moths who drink them) to the fraught role of white women's tears in racist violence.

Subjects

Genres

Poetry.