Birds, Bones, and Melancholia: Musings and Mutterings
Ebook
A collection of fifty-four free-verse poems revolving around the interiority of melancholia, ranging from chaotic dyads and wearisome days to gut-wrenching despair. Birds have hollow bones, continually flying and falling from highs to lows, and therein lies the inspiration behind both the title and the content. The poems touch the spectrums of stark blacks and whites, with bleak and unrelentingly graphic depictions of the pain, loneliness, and emptiness of mental illness. For those who know it, the writing will ring only too true, for those who know of it, the words are a vicarious immersion in the depths of the human psyche. This is an expose of the intensely personal world of melancholia.
“An exclusive spectrum of the color black would begin with the slate grey of sadness, move on to lead black of depression in the midrange, and end up in the pitch dark of melancholia. Anushri Nanavati’s seemingly bleak poems tiptoe fragilely across the entire spectrum. And yet under the epidermis is a throbbing vein of deep sensuality.”
—Yogesh B. Sharma, writer and poet
“What is left when what is lost is lost? Living in the space that absence leaves, what is living, what is knowing? Once beliefs have been shattered by loss, what remains that all the words pointed to but could never capture? These poems are pointers, pointing to what words cannot say but to what we feel and know when haunted by the presence of absence—what flew away.”
—Jon Frederickson, author of The Lies We Tell Ourselves
“Aching and arching through flickering instants, the poet Anushri Nanavati tosses us into dark and lit places of abandonment and regeneration, reminding us that a healing recovery is a juggling beyond our own control.”
—Thomas M. Brod, associate clinical professor of psychiatry, Geffen UCLA School of Medicine
- Title: Birds, Bones, and Melancholia: Musings and Mutterings
- Authors: Anushri Nanavati, Alan Karbelnig
- Publisher: Resource Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2023
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781666778656, 9781666778632, 166677863X, 9781666778649, 1666778648, 1666778656
- Resource ID: LLS:9781666778656
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-08-19T02:13:42Z
Anushri Nanavati is the founder of Haiku & Hymns classes for children in Ahmedabad, India, where she teaches various subjects, including creative writing, literature, psychology, history, and foreign languages. She is an external instructor for Cambridge International Assessments. Previously working as a psychologist, she has had training in psychoanalysis and Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. Nanavati also specializes in curriculum design, having developed modules on Social Emotional Learning and Creative Expression for international schools.