The Mourning Body in “Swim Home to the Vanished” – Chicago Review of Books

The Mourning Body in “Swim Home to the Vanished” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Grief is a powerful emotion. It demands and deserves respect. We may fight it, repress it, or swim against it, but in the end, denying grief only prolongs the pain that must eventually come. For the poet and novelist Brendan Shay Basham, that reckoning transpires in the body. While the mind may try to … Read more