Antonyms for Daughter
Jenny Boychuk
Antonyms for Daughter, Jenny Boychuk's poetry debut, addresses a harrowing subject: the loss of the poet's mother to addiction. Deploying a range of forms and techniques astonishing in a first collection, Boychuk creates unsparing scenes of their complicated life together. Poem after poem attempts to wring clarity from memories ripe with trauma and love, as Boychuk questions whether it is possible for a child to ever extricate herself from an abusive parent — to become, as it were, a living "antonym" of a painful family legacy. A booklength loss-lyric of vivid beauty, Antonyms for Daughter is a singular example of grief transformed into art. (From Signal Poetry)
Antonyms for Daughter is available in September 2021.
Jenny Boychuk was born in New Westminster, B.C. Her poems and essays have appeared in The Walrus, Grain, PRISM international and more. She won the 2019 CBC Nonfiction Prize for her essay Slow Violence. Boychuk lives in Victoria.
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