To Claim Loneliness

by Doris Ferleger

"I have taken on the names/ . . . belonging to those I loved, who loved me. Their river stones/fell into my pockets," writes Doris Ferleger in her beautiful and deeply insightful chapbook, To Claim Loneliness. As a child throwing pieces of ritual bread into a river on Rosh Hashanah, the speaker "used to worry the fish might eat my sins and die." As a woman, the speaker wonders, "if grief left ungrieved/causes all discord," and if "the point is-(as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CFDD47KT
• ISBN13: 9798888383117
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Finishing Line Press
• Length: 68 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"