Stephanie Jane recenzis Harmattan de Adaeze Elechi
A beautiful, comforting collection
5 steloj
Harmattan is a deeply thoughtful chapbook collection of prose and poetry exploring grief and loss between mothers and daughters, written while Adaeze Elechi was grieving her own mother's passing. I found it a comforting work to read although it is, of course, highly emotional. In the introduction, Elechi explains how she delved back into Igbo customs and beliefs in order to come to terms with her loss. A central tenet of those beliefs is the circular flow of life, from birth to death and birth again, and this theme runs throughout Harmattan.
At just fifty pages long, Harmattan can be read swiftly, but it also a work to be mulled over and savoured. I liked the imagery contained within the poems, and loved the prose pieces even more. Elechi's depictions of close mother-daughter relationships brought memories of my own mother to mind and I wish I could have had Harmattan …
Harmattan is a deeply thoughtful chapbook collection of prose and poetry exploring grief and loss between mothers and daughters, written while Adaeze Elechi was grieving her own mother's passing. I found it a comforting work to read although it is, of course, highly emotional. In the introduction, Elechi explains how she delved back into Igbo customs and beliefs in order to come to terms with her loss. A central tenet of those beliefs is the circular flow of life, from birth to death and birth again, and this theme runs throughout Harmattan.
At just fifty pages long, Harmattan can be read swiftly, but it also a work to be mulled over and savoured. I liked the imagery contained within the poems, and loved the prose pieces even more. Elechi's depictions of close mother-daughter relationships brought memories of my own mother to mind and I wish I could have had Harmattan to hand to help me cope during the years when my grief was particularly raw. This is such a beautiful and comforting collection.