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    The Sheltering
    The Sheltering
    The Sheltering
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    The Sheltering

    By Khaya Ronkainen

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    Readers have called this work "a profound documentary", "a personal story" and "with possibility and promise of radical illumination."

     

    The recent years have been violent to most of us, with one crisis after another. We all are dealing with grief. A collective and personal anguish for things and people dear to us, we've lost.

     

    The Sheltering is a recounting of pandemic and political anxieties through verse. The book exists as a witness to the darkest times of our modern society. A collection of poems that centres on themes of loss, grief, resilience and healing. Sometimes a dare, and other times a plea, the author invites the reader to sit with their feelings in a world that wants us to heal fast and move on. Because we cannot heal what we do not acknowledge.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherQuillInInk Press
    Release dateNov 20, 2022
    ISBN9789529471058
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      The Sheltering - Khaya Ronkainen

      The Sheltering

      KHAYA RONKAINEN

      QuillInInk Press · Tampere · 2022

      The Sheltering. Copyright © 2022 Khaya Ronkainen

      All rights reserved. Published in Tampere, Finland by QuillInInk Press.

      ISBN 978-952-94-7105-8 (e-book)

      ISBN 978-952-94-7104-1 (pbk)

      No part of this book may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without prior written permission from the author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.

      Editor: Jane Mqamelo

      Cover Illustration & Design: Siiri Hirsiaho

      Background Cover Photo: Khaya Ronkainen

      NB. Before you read any further, tap the middle of the screen to open reader options. Tap font icon and adjust text size, layout, etc., for a pleasurable reading experience on your chosen device.

      Dear Reader

      It is a miracle that you hold this book in your hands. Initially, these were jottings in an off-line diary about what I experienced and witnessed living through the Covid-19 pandemic, Black Lives Matter, and the recent Russian military invasion of Ukraine.

      The decision to publish this collection came after stumbling upon a letter dated 5 September 1884, written by H.H. (Helen Jackson) to her friend:

      It is a cruel wrong to your ‘day & generation’ that you will not give them the light ... I do not think we have a right to withhold from the world a word or a thought any more than a deed which might help a single soul.

      So, here it is, my heart to yours.

      Yours truly,

      Khaya

      Table of Contents

      IT CANNOT HAPPEN

      PRESCIENCE

      INVASION

      SUBURBAN BLUES

      SEVEN STAGES OF CHANGE

      THIS IS NO RETREAT

      A TIME WHEN PEOPLE DIED LIKE FLIES

      VIRAL PRIVILEGE

      STORIES OF THE UNARMED

      SOOT

      THE NATIVE QUESTION

      DISORIENTATION PRESUPPOSES ANOTHER

      THE SOUND OF HOME

      POSTPONEMENT

      SELF-CARE

      EXORCISM

      HOW TO STOP IDLE MIND CHATTER

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