Poetry. THE TELLING, a book-length poem, investigates the life-long secret of a woman who believes that, as a child fleeing repression, she accidently killed her mother.
"Denise Bergman's second collection of poems is astonishingly original: I can't think of another work that uses something so small to such large effect. THE TELLING is ultimately about time and memory, art and truth, women and birth and death, and it all comes from 'A sepia...
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