Micrographia

by Jennifer Bowering Delisle

As Jennifer Bowering Delisle was on her path through infertility towards motherhood, she was simultaneously losing her own mother to a rare degenerative neurological disease and an approaching medically-assisted death. The lyric essays in Micrographia explore how losses can collide and reverberate both within our own lives and in our relationships with the rest of the world. How much do we share of our stories, and how much do we understand of what others are experiencing? Ultimately, this is a book about connection; “micrographia” is both the term for the diminished handwriting caused by neurological disease, and the narrative fragments offered here.

113 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 1, 2023

About the author

Jennifer Bowering Delisle is the author of The Bosun Chair, a hybrid of poetry and family memoir forthcoming from NeWest Press. She has published poetry, non-fiction and fiction in magazines and anthologies across North America.

Jennifer has a PhD in Canadian Literature, and is also the author of The Newfoundland Diaspora: Mapping the Literature of Out-Migration.

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[Astrid · Rating 5 out of 5]

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