Photo credits: ready made - pexels Edited by Vaishali Title: History of Present Complaint Series: First Cut #4 Genre/Themes: Poetry/Prose Collection Year of Publication: 2021 Publisher: Close To The Bone Author: HLR ASIN: B08VTLFYNY ISBN: 9798703799475 Chronic illness is the subject of the now as much as it has been the keynote epidemic of former and present exposure, because among ourselves, our visceral lives are teeming with the moving and ever-mounting levels of ruction while are minds are continually climbing and clawing for sane harbour. We can't always name the things we go through as humans, we can't always explain them either, but when we find the words to pin down and frame our most painful transfusions as sentient hopefuls, we use what I'd like to call an animal call, where a mystifying voice becomes a translucent one. Chronic disorders are persisting, dimensional and often bizarre afflictions that can span and swarm the pastures of life and perception, sight and sensation, night and day, sense and senselessness, pain and disgrace, bereavement and blight, mortality and fragility. A mini-universe where light and limbo are spaced far apart on a mural half-finished, not when we skim and coast the ill-lit and tenebrous parts of us. The hardest parts to talk about are the airless cavities that need the space to breathe. We are chimeras of heartbreak, disturbance and hardship, pulled and twisted together by the unsalted abrasions and emotional lacerations that hone everything we become. The mental health talk may feel outdated but we still evade the darkest facets, the cloak-and-dagger indignity; the ugly, the ominous, the grimy, charged parts of us that open up the maw of shame and chagrin. Out to break a mould, HLR, debut author of 'History of Present Complaint' compiles a miscellanea of trauma based prosetry that details her disturbing, unsparing and very truthful experience with suffering, chronic illness and the UK structure of healthcare. Coming in at a short 86 pages of unvarnished poetry and prose, the author's body of work manifests the bones of her emotional life as she voices, faces and exposes the acute adversity of trauma reality. 'History of Present Complaint' is book four in the First Cut series, one that stands alone but speaks aloud in the name of trauma perspective. THE BACK OF THE BOOK
H I S T O R Y O F P R E S E N T C O M P L A I N T b y H L R A big thank you to the publisher for getting in touch to tell me about HLR's trauma and mental-health based prosetry collection! W H E R E Y O U C A N F I N D H L R & H E R W O R K Website: https://treacleheart.com Twitter: @HLRwriter Amazon: 'History of Present Complaint' A b o u t H L R
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