6/8/2023 0 Comments Tell by Soraya Peerbaye![]() ![]() Bakul Banerjee, "Harrowing and deeply empathetic, Tell: poems for a girlhood traces the events surrounding the 1997 murder of teenager Reena Virk by a group of high school classmates. Peerbaye's language becomes a vehicle not just for exploring what others in the world may be capable of, but also of drawing readers into excruciating proximity with our own adolescent longing, fear, shame and rage." - Jury Citation, 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize "Peerbaye's brilliance-and yes, this poetry is transcendentally brilliant-is her commitment to image as memory, and memory as empathy." - Corrine Gilroy "An uncommonly meaningful collection." - Dr. ![]() The true miracle of Tell is not merely its choice to sing of such things, but its ability to sing in such a way as to urge the reader to embrace painful sympathies. ![]() ![]() And yet, the power of this book derives only partly from the unbearable facts of violence, hatred, and alienation. Peerbaye bears brave witness to the unspeakable brutality of these events, drawing from testimonies of the convicted, the victim's autopsy report, and a history of the landscape itself. "Harrowing and deeply empathetic, Tell: poems for a girlhood traces the events surrounding the 1997 murder of teenager Reena Virk by a group of high school classmates. ![]()
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