Out of Emptied Cups

By Anne Casey

out of emptied cups lnverts the inward weather of being human, moving through birth, loss, and resilience as a woman, immigrant, and parent to reveal how body and soul contend with a world that weighs and answers us with memory, endurance, and quiet, stubborn hope.

out of emptied cups explores what it means to be human--a consciousness contained within a shell that dictates so much of what our experience of life will be.

Including internationally award-winning and shortlisted pieces, these strongly felt poems interrogate what it means to be a woman in a world where the female body still preordains so much for the person it contains. Deliberately weaving in and out of, and cross-referencing, each other, these poems reveal multiple perspectives on the same or related narratives.

At times unabashedly political, this book plumbs the poet's own experiences of birth, death, loss, treatment/mistreatment and place in the world--as a woman, as an immigrant, as a parent, as a former environment journalist/author depicting the decline of our planet, as a human being questioning our treatment of others based on lines on a map and 'so many lengths/of slick red tape'.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912561743
• ISBN13: 9781912561742
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Salmon Poetry
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.1"