- Paperback: 164 pages
- Publisher: Curiosities (January 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1934648884
- ISBN-13: 978-1934648889
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 272 g
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The rooms in The Memory Palace are filled with holy relics, profane agonies, memories that are revelations, and windows to wonders . . .
A significant poetry collection by JoSelle Vanderhooft, dealing with the raw themes of youth, pain, the Catholic faith, and the challenges of growing up gay.
Structured around the Renaissance mnemonic device of a building with rooms populated by thoughts and objects, THE MEMORY PALACE is a lucid dream, a remarkably powerful memoir, and a fantasy.
"Inside The Memory Palace, JoSelle Vanderhooft constructs a painfully honest memoir in free verse, detailing one talented young woman's odyssey past the monsters of mental illness, through the brutal clash between faith and sexuality, always haunted by the terrible enigma of a father's suicide -- yet these traumas are counterbalanced by earnest hope and the small, sweet moments life grants to fighters and survivors. Her eloquent and eminently readable story will resonate with any one who's ever found themselves an alien in their own world, peering in at society from the outside."
-- Mike Allen, three-time Rhysling Award winner and editor of Mythic Delirium
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a moving journey, Feb 11 2009
By Logospilgrim "the quiet professor" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: The Memory Palace (Paperback)
This wonderful collection of poems is a deeply moving, compelling, original and interesting journey through the author's memories. Her lyrical and yet down-to-earth prose has been a delight to read and reread. Every poem made me curious to see what came next in the story; I empathized with the trials and joys she generously and beautifully shared. Her words are poignant and infused with a resilient faith, and the way in which she relates the simple, delicate happiness of every day moments is both comforting and inspiring. A highly recommended book.
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Moving and honest poems, Jan 27 2010
By Eric Swedin - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Memory Palace (Paperback)
I don't normally review books, but this book touched me with the honesty of the poetry and the beauty of its metaphors. JoSelle deserves to be much more widely known for her skill as a poet and her insights into herself, as painful as those memories are to remember.
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