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Out of emptied cups

Out of emptied cups

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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?. Collectively these poems strive to cross the boundary between body and soul. To be filled to overflowing. Emptied. To be simultaneously half-full, half-empty. To drink deeply of this one precious cup and find meaning in the traces of what remains??lifting our hearts/out of emptied cups/and away with them/into the heavens?.