Amnesia Findings
Published on 3. September 2019
112 pages
978-0-7022-6369-9 (ISBN)
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Now I knit myself back into a human. It's hard work relearning the steps-slip-stitch, drop-stitch, pick-up stitch, loop. I get into a rhythm. The pattern is complex-I drop a few stitches. The holes form gaps in my memory. Knitting visions and memories, Anna Jacobson's collection traces the skeins of lost histories and the spaces of dropped stitches. Exquisite and whimsical, these poems bear witness to the broken and healed. Gentle but robust, these are poems of personal resilience, framed by explorations of Jewish culture and family and fuelled by a boundless and exhilarating imaginativeness.
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Anna Jacobson
Amnesia Findings
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09/2019
University of Queensland Press
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Content
- Intro
- Author Biography
- The Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize Series
- Title Page
- Imprint Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- I AMNESIA FINDINGS
- Amnesia Findings
- Until I Am Home
- French Horn Dream
- How to Grow Nightshades with Teapots
- When Dreams Turn Archaeological
- Wilt
- Butter-snap Letters
- Alterations
- Things I Find While Tidying My Room
- Toolbox
- On Madness
- Anna's Guide to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
- Dream Diary - Tuesday and Wednesday Night
- Twin Erosion Dreams
- Notes I Didn't Give to the Western Wall
- II SEPARATION CEREMONY
- How I Escaped Death
- Separation Ceremony
- Nurses' Observations
- Missing Limbs
- Discovery
- Split
- Passover Seder Plate, 2011
- How to Knit a Human
- Even Our Oven Is Neurotic
- 2011
- III CREATURES IN MY ATTIC
- Waiting for the Big 80
- To Sink into a Decade
- Creatures in My Attic
- Earliest and Latest Memories
- Great Fish
- Suburban Shepherds
- Spot the Difference Had Gadya
- Tinnitus
- Growing Wings
- IV CRUNCHY, NO BRUISES
- Finding a Translator
- Danish Pastry Passport
- Today I Feel like Remembering
- The Pineapple
- Grandad's Passover
- Crunchy, No Bruises
- Passing Down the Egg Pot
- On Board Commissar Rommel
- We Make Marks Together
- Nana's Hair
- Allspice
- Button Collection
- Yahrzeit
- Why Can't We Just Keep Everything?
- To My Brother, the Personal Trainer
- Heirloom Rescue
- Ketubah
- Tzfat
- Fife Findings
- Harp Strung
- Letter 1: To the Boy with Blue Hair in Carriage 2
- You Just Wanted to Show Me
- Heal
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
