"An astonishing memoir to be approached with awe, delicacy, and plenty of leisure time" (Ann Morrissett Davidon, The Philadelphia Inquirer), Color is the Suffering of Light recounts Green's turbulent life, growing up in the 1960s on her family's farm in Massachusetts. "The narrative breathes with . . . energy and honesty".--Leslie Larson, The Women's Review of Books.
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"An astonishing memoir to be approached with awe, delicacy, and plenty of leisure time" (Ann Morrissett Davidon, The Philadelphia Inquirer), Color is the Suffering of Light recounts Green's turbulent life, growing up in the 1960s on her family's farm in Massachusetts. "The narrative breathes with . . . energy and honesty".--Leslie Larson, The Women's Review of Books.
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Very Good. Size: 8x5x0; No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. 341 pages; faint spine crease, light edge wear; Set on a Massachusetts farm in the 1960s, this memoir about the author's childhood, and the legacy of three generations of her family, is a vivid portrait of a young girl searching for meaning and beauty in a world where mother love-so fierce that it becomes pathological-cripples those whom it would nurture; where real and spiritual poverty, alcoholism, and despair pit themselves against the imaginative life; where nature and language become a creative child's only allies. Of her family, award-winning poet Melissa Green writes: "I looked down at the old photograph and into the proud, angry, hurt, scheming, unforgiving, tender faces of the Greens. Their family was just like ours. Then I thought: it is ours. How did love get so mixed up with hatred? How did kindness turn to bitterness? Why was envy, resentment, fury, unhappiness, blame, and the deeply felt belief that life had cheated them, that they deserved better, at the heart of everything they said? Their blood was in mine. Their sadness and defeat and defiance ran through my veins until they joined like rivers at my heart." Alive with the feeling and color that distinguish its author's widely praised poems, this book richly evokes the process by which certain memories burn themselves indelibly into our minds, changing forever who we are.
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Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
