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Carrion
Just as Odin’s ravens would whisper everything he couldn’t see, so too do these and other mythical ravens—of Athena, the Biblical Eve and Noah, Coronis, and others—function in Jamison’s essay they are tools to interpret and make meaning of their world, rent as it is between the rural and urban, the romantic and abusive, where language is both surfeit and dearth. This collection sees mythical ravens murmur alongside the actual bone and viscera of crows, starlings, and pigeons in disarming explorations of desire and destruction, the body and creation. Carrion is an ambitiously structured collection that honors the literary forebears at its center while lamenting our inability to communicate anything—love, need, hope—except in metaphors.
152 pages, Paperback
Published June 4, 2024
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June 21, 2024
A collection of essays about love, hope and loss. Betteween myths (Icarius, Orpheus, Odin), the metaphor of ravens Wes Jamison explores desire and destruction, body and creation. Some of the most remarkable essays were as entitled "Mother" when we see the writer dialoguing with Virginia Woolf or his characters for her novel "The waves". In these essays were explore the pain and the suffering of the Woolf in her last days, made us realising that we should embrace the people we love and do not leave nothing unfinished .
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