Relief, Have You a Name? by Phoebe Marrall

$19.99

 

A rich testament to the power of creativity and the human spirit, Marrall’s debut collection is filled with stark, realistic poems that paint an intimate portrait of love, loss, identity, and the ever-present need for empathy. In these vibrant poems of nature and biography, Marrall showcases a true talent for imbuing the smallest human details with authenticity and layered meanings. Overflowing with vivid and accessible language, Relief, Have You A Name? is both intellectually stimulating and emotionally engaging, written with clear eyes and an open, curious heart.

–John Sibley Williams, author of As One Fire Consumes Another

 

To be alive is the greatest miracle of all. We are born to grow, to question, to create. And when, in the inevitable moments where life threatens to crush us, it’s our relentless desire to breathe that leads us back into the light, alarmed at having been so cruelly surprised. Each piece in this collection from the quiet heart of Phoebe Marrall is like a bright red berry placed in the sun, oxygen that honors the miracle. I highly, highly recommend sitting down and having yourself some Phoebe Marrall red.

–Graham Salisbury, author of Under the Blood-Red Sun

 

 

 

 

 

Description

Relief, Have You a Name?

by Phoebe Marrall

$19.99, Full-length, paper

978-1-64662-555-0

2021

This chapbook was made possible in part by donations to the ONE LAST WORD Program. ONE LAST WORD helps to bring the last works of gifted poets to the world.

Phoebe Marrall, orphaned at the age of nine, was a survivor of The Depression and of a grueling childhood. When she died in 2017 at the age of eighty-four, her daughters Jane Hendrickson and Camille Komine inherited hundreds of poems she had written. They remained unpublished during her lifetime but have posthumously been published in Blue Moon Literary & Art Review, POETiCA REViEW, Eunoia Review, iacoustic, January Review, Eclectica Magazine, Amethyst Review, Literary Yard, and elsewhere.

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