Melissa Green
Autore di COLOR IS THE SUFFERING OF LIGHT: A Memoir
Opere di Melissa Green
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Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Green, Melissa
- Sesso
- female
- Attività lavorative
- Author
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award (1989)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 5
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 91
- Popolarità
- #204,136
- Voto
- 4.2
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 12
Wow, intense. It's not clear what happened in her early life, but whatever it was, Melissa's only escape was to get lost in literature. By her young adulthood she found herself either suicidal, or living for poetry - I mean for writing poetry. Her extreme intensity caught the attention of Derek Walcott, who pushed her, resulting in what became her first book, and the Russian exile Joseph Brodsky. Both Walcott and Brodsky later won a Noble Prize for literature. At the same time she was writing poetry under their influence, she was in and out of psychiatric centers that kept her under 24 hour suicide watch.
She writes about her young adult experiences, mixing poetry into her writing. In my kindle version there are audio links to her reading her own poetry, and one video link which we find out later was an event she attended while under suicide watch, barely able to eat anything. The extremes to which she lives for and breathes poetry are somehow just something other outside my lexicon. I was stunned by poetry that came out, which is even better with her own voice. Every word in this memoir is intense. Don't pick this up lightly.
LT's timjones interviewed Green last year (link here). I read the interview not knowing anything about Green, and it caught my attention and led me to read this memoir.
2014
https://www.librarything.com/topic/172769#4738372… (altro)