The Renunciations: Poems Matt Phelan and the mystery and magic

and the mystery and magic of the sea

though he isn’t around much

the new loner in school

A hidden past

returns home

The Renunciations: Poems Matt Phelan and the mystery and magicAn extraordinary collection of endurance and transformation by the award winning author of Bestiary The Renunciations is a book of resilience, survival, and the journey to radically shift ones sense of self in the face of trauma. Moving between a childhood marked by love and abuse and the breaking marriage of that adult child, Donika Kelly charts memory and the body as landscapes to be traversed and tended. These poems construct life rafts and