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A Storyteller's Memoir
by Yrsa Daley-Ward
From the celebrated poet behind bone, a collection of poems that tells a story of coming-of-age, uncovering the cruelty and beauty of the world, going under, and finding redemption.
Through her signature sharp, searing poems, this is the story of Yrsa Daley-Ward and all the things that happened. "Even the terrible things. And God, there were terrible things." It's about her childhood in the northwest of England with her beautiful, careworn mother Marcia; the man formerly known as Dad (half fun, half frightening); and her little brother Roo, who sees things written in the stars.
It's also about the surreal magic of adolescence, about growing up and discovering the power and fear of sexuality, about pitch-gray days of pills and powder and connection. It's about damage and pain, but also joy. With raw intensity and shocking honesty, The Terrible is a collection of poems that tells the story of what it means to lose yourself and find your voice.
"You may not run away from the thing that you are
because it comes and comes and comes as sure as you breathe."
"A powerful, unconventionally structured memoir recounting harrowing coming-of-age ordeals ... Daley-Ward resists classification in this profound mix of poetry and prose... . [She] has quite a ferociously moving story to tell." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"Devastating and lyrical." —The New York Times
"Though her plainspokenness resembles Rupi Kaur's accessibility, Daley-Ward has a specific story to tell, one that is suspenseful and affecting in its details." —The New Yorker
"A coming-of-age memoir ... of particular lyricism and bracing honesty." —The New York Times Book Review
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Yrsa Daley-Ward is a writer and poet of mixed Jamaican and Nigerian heritage and is the author of The How, bone, and The Terrible, and the winner of the PEN Ackerley Prize. She splits her time between Brooklyn and London.
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