We’ll Not Soon Forget About This
Poetry
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AVAILABLE APRIL 9, 2027
Lesley-Anne Evans brings her fierce and tender sensibilities to an intimate conversation with her mother, after a debilitating stroke leads to her sudden death.
Although the mother’s unexpected illness and death mean a healing conversation will never occur, the daughter is compelled to speak, even if that requires imagining her mother’s presence and braving the most vulnerable disclosures of all.
Evans explores the relational complexities of one mother and daughter, and the common experience of many women who want more, and pursue more, than their mothers can give. Never veering from straight talk about difficult truths, the poems compassionately ac- company the reader through pain and loss in search of open spaces where consolation is possible.
Reviews
Praise for Evans' Previous Work
“In this striking feminist book, the powerful unmuting which takes place in these final chapters is a kind of birth. Evans highlights the too-often-silenced grit of women.” — Cole Klassen, genderfluid musician, poet, and teacher
“Woman raised in sexist, moralistic, ‘Christian’ subculture rejects it but embraces a recontextualized faith later in life: it’s not a new story, but it’s certainly expressed with meticulous brilliance in Evans’ vivid, highly evocative spiritual memoir in poems.” — Diane Tucker, poet, editor, fiction writer, and playwright
Book Details
Pub Date: April 2027
Trade paper
90 pages
978-1-55380-757-5 (print) 978-1-55380-758-2 (e-book)
6 x 9