Mourning Doves Book Club

205 West 6th Street,Georgetown TX 78626

10 May, 2023

Description

Mourning Doves Book Club Whether your grief is raw and recent, or a well worn wound, you are welcome to join this group. This book club is a place to gather and share with others who have gone through similar experiences. You may be going through a loss yourself, have a loved one who is going through loss, or simply willing to explore themes of grief. Come ready to discuss LYING IN by Elizabeth Metzger. About LYING IN: A devastating, vulnerable collection tracing high-risk pregnancy and new motherhood amid grief. “All my life all I’ve wanted was to be myself / and someone else,” writes Elizabeth Metzger. From the shadowy perspective of confinement, where the presence of death unsettles all outcomes, these poems examine an expansion and fracturing of the self—into motherhood as well as childhood, into past selves and future unknowns. The child becomes parent, the parent becomes child, the child arrives but in doing so is lost. New loss haunts new life, and life becomes “one or two lives.” The door is more valuable than the prize behind it. With ambivalence as well as deep feeling, Metzger wonders how a single body can be expected to hold both immense joy and immense mourning, profound longing and creeping numbness, when one so often overtakes the other. She plunges into the darkness inside—of the gloomy room, the inner body, the afterlife and the pre-language mind—and sends back “a searchlight across the underworld,” Eurydice in search of herself. Aching and contemplative, Lying In is an exquisite portrait of an in-between time—and of the person who emerges on the other side. “Isn’t it obvious how we’ve changed?” _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ **The Lark & Owl Book Club policy** In order to balance the continued interest in our book clubs with the frequent no-shows, we have moved to a $5.00 fee for all book club events. At the book club meeting, all registered attendees will be given a $5.00 voucher to be used towards the next book club book, or a future purchase. Any individuals who register but do not attend will have 1 week from the event date to pick up their voucher from the bookstore. If the voucher is not claimed, it will be considered forfeited. Please be mindful of this policy as you are registering!