Bring Down the Chandeliers
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Tara Hardy is a father-daughter incest survivor. In these poems you will find sex and survival turned inside out, offering fresh perspective on what it...
Tara Hardy is a father-daughter incest survivor. In these poems you will find sex and survival turned inside out, offering fresh perspective on what it means to be counted among the wounded. Where we expect to find liability, we find muscle. Where we expect to find numbness, we find thirst. Bring Down the Chandeliers is an exploration of trauma, body and faith. It is also an inquiry into forgiveness. As such these poems are not just for sexual assault survivors; they are for anyone who has struggled to forgive oneself and/or one's trespassers. They are for anyone making a life in the midst of aftermath. Tara Hardy is, as Dorothy Allison claims, "The real deal. Passionate, brave, gifted, insightful, dead-on in language and craft." Find yourself strangely hopeful amid her explorations of addiction and justice. Consider your own compass as she navigates body, as she confronts sex as the site of what was both stolen and returned. Find a surprising bit of yourself in a story may not be yours, but in which you're invited to grapple with your own vulnerabilities and strengths. Walk away with a more intricate understanding of your own humanity.
Author: Tara Hardy
Publisher: Write Bloody Publishing
Published: 11/27/2013
Pages: 100
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781935904304
About the Author
Hardy, Tara: - Tara Hardy was born in raised in southeastern Michigan, but now writes in the emerald city of Seattle where she was elected Poet Populist in 2002. She holds and MFA from Vermont College, and is the working class queer femme poet who founded Bent, the nation's only writing institute for LGBTIQ people. A founding member of Salt Lines, the all woman performance poetry group, Tara tours internationally. She has been finalist on National Poetry Slam stages seven times and was the highest ranking woman in the 2010 Individual World Poetry Slam.
Author: Tara Hardy
Publisher: Write Bloody Publishing
Published: 11/27/2013
Pages: 100
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781935904304
About the Author
Hardy, Tara: - Tara Hardy was born in raised in southeastern Michigan, but now writes in the emerald city of Seattle where she was elected Poet Populist in 2002. She holds and MFA from Vermont College, and is the working class queer femme poet who founded Bent, the nation's only writing institute for LGBTIQ people. A founding member of Salt Lines, the all woman performance poetry group, Tara tours internationally. She has been finalist on National Poetry Slam stages seven times and was the highest ranking woman in the 2010 Individual World Poetry Slam.