We’d like to invite you to join Malvern’s Line/Break Poetry Book Club! Hosted by Malvernian Claire, this is a reading group for those of you interested in exploring works from our expansive poetry section.

This meeting will take place via Zoom. If you’d like to join in the online chat, PLEASE RSVP becky@malvernbooks.com with “poetry book club” in the subject line. The book can be purchased via our online store, or call us on 512-322-2097 for curbside pick up or to make an appointment to visit.

On Saturday, July 24th, at 1pm we’ll be discussing The Renunciations: Poems by Donika Kelly.

The Renunciations is a book of resilience, survival, and the journey to radically shift one’s sense of self in the face of trauma. Moving between a childhood marked by love and abuse and the breaking marriage of that adult child, Donika Kelly charts memory and the body as landscapes to be traversed and tended. These poems construct life rafts and sanctuaries even in their most devastating confrontations with what a person can bear, with how families harm themselves. With the companionship of “the oracle”—an observer of memory who knows how each close call with oblivion ends—the act of remembrance becomes curative, and personal mythologies give way to a future defined less by wounds than by possibility. In this gorgeous and heartrending second collection, we find the home one builds inside oneself after reckoning with a legacy of trauma—a home whose construction starts “with a razing.”

Join Zoom meeting:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82317029244?pwd=ajRzMStxeG50UGZtSHVvMWE1TXdJUT09

Meeting ID: 823 1702 9244
Passcode: 104900

If you don’t have Zoom, this event can also be viewed live on our YouTube channel.