The Renunciations: Poems Matt Phelan A hidden past

A hidden past

For better or for worse

the apartment is bursting at the seams

the new loner in school

” “Breathe in confidence

The Renunciations: Poems Matt Phelan A hidden pastAn extraordinary collection of endurance and transformation by the award winning author of Bestiary The Renunciations is a book of resilience, survival, and the journey to radically shift ones 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