Cauterized

By Laura Apol

Cauterize: to burn or freeze the flesh around a wound to stop heavy bleeding. In her sixth full-length collection, award-winning poet Laura Apol returns to themes of loss that are, at least partly, cauterized: her struggles with a conservative religious upbringing, her mother's illness and death, children growing up and leaving home, losing her adult daughter to suicide, a worldwide pandemic, the casualties of age. With startling honesty, empathy, and lyrical precision, Apol offers insight into the ways some wounds need cautery to begin to heal. This is a book that will resonate with anyone who has grappled with the complexities of grief, forgiveness, resilience, and healing across time.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611864852
• ISBN13: 9781611864854
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 98 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 9.0"