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Long Exposure follows a single mother in the years after her son's birth as she struggles with postpartum depression and a painful separation from her child's father. Forced to reckon with her own childhood experiences, including the death of her brother to an accidental overdose, the speaker examines, as if through a camera lens, memories videotaped together. The book explores familial grief, addiction, and mental illness through language both surreal and plain, domesticated and haunted. These poems ask what it means to be an artist and a mother, outside of female friendships and romantic relationships. The poems, experienced as part fever dream, part damaged video footage, exist in a darkly overgrown and hypnotic landscape. Ultimately, the book is a portrait of a speaker locating many selves from long ago, resurrecting what images she can from the recovered video footage of her personal archive.

About the Author :
Julia Anna Morrison is a writer and filmmaker from Atlanta, Georgia, with an MFA from the University of Iowa. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net, and has recently appeared in Best American Poetry, The Adroit Journal, and Narrative. She is co-founder of Two Peach and teaches at the University of Iowa. Long Exposure is her first book of poems.

Review :
"As fierce as it is tender, Long Exposure performs domestic sorcery. An Ovid of the interior, Julia Anna Morrison invites the subliminal to emerge sublime. The comings and goings of motherhood become as elemental as snow or light or consciousness, as enchanting as a storm or shadow or unconditional love passing across generations. In this otherworldly debut, childhoods bleed like seasons, and the longings of grief and eros transform the lived-in landscape. Rather than capturing a moment, Morrison frees the moment to move, to drift with us and against us: 'We go back and forth. We halve each other.' Long Exposure will not leave you whole or healed; it will multiply you. Lucky us to be guests in Morrison's universe, where 'If you are missing, you exist.'" --Elizabeth Metzger, author of Lying In "Reading Julia Anna Morrison is like reading poems written by wildflowers in the dead of night buried in snow. With feverish precision and deep magic, Morrison's Long Exposure sings the most inconsolable and gorgeous lullaby I've ever heard." --Sabrina Orah Mark, author of Happily: A Personal History--with Fairy Tales "This book contains a mesmerizing intimacy unlike anything I've ever read. With extraordinary lyricism, Julia Anna Morrison takes us into landscapes, histories, and moments that open and deepen endlessly, where time blooms and folds and 'it starts to snow the / same snow from an unusually painful winter a million years ago.' There is a splendor and a candor to these poems that leaves me awestruck. Morrison is a visionary poet, and Long Exposure is a completely stunning debut." --Chloe Honum, author of The Lantern Room "While the shutter of Julia Anna Morrison's lens stays open, three decisive figures wander the frame, each becoming a blur within the others and herself: a brother lost in childhood, a lover who didn't stay, and the newborn son who focuses her ardent tenderness. Set in lackluster America, between shaken snow globe Iowa and lakeside Southern fields, this debut is often awake all night, claustrophobic and felt from afar, agitated by sex and boredom, by 'desires I am not ready for.' Through anxiety and dream, nostalgia, hope, the poet joins her dead sibling's hand to the hand of her 'evergreen' boy. Morrison can be self-lacerating, obsessive, or matter-of-fact. Or plangent or soft, even fragile, saying her long goodbyes. 'If it didn't get killed in winter, ' she avers, 'it comes back with / color.' These are human poems, the kind that bleed." --Andrew Zawacki, author of Unsun


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780913785775
  • Publisher: Moon City Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Moon City Press
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 88
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0913785776
  • Publisher Date: 30 Nov 2023
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Poems


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