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The Vanishing Act (& The Miracle After)

The Vanishing Act (& The Miracle After)

By Mirabel

The Vanishing Act (& The Miracle After) is an existential meditation on grief, the kind which pins you down and minimizes you. The first half of the collection, The Vanishing Act, captures the ruminations of a mind which feels limited physically and spiritually. The imagery in this section intermingles magic and violence as the speaker confronts systemic issues as a middle-class woman, a person of colour, and a survivor of abuse.The second section, (& The Miracle After), offers a fresh perspective on recovery. In this section, the speaker revisits images of bodily harm. Objects previously used for violence are brought back to a state of benign normalcy. As spring arrives, the speaker contemplates renewal and the paradoxical nature of taking agency of her life, while knowing the act of survival is made possible only because of miraculous intervention.

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(Essential Poets)

9781771837958

96 pages |

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A sensitive intersectional feminist work of value, not to be missed.

Salena Wiener, Montreal Review of Books

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Avleen K. Mokha, also known as Mirabel, is an award-winning poet based in Montreal. Mirabel’s poetry chapbook Dream Fragments (Cactus Press 2020) received critical acclaim from The League of Canadian Poets and PRISM International. Mirabel has performed her work across Canada, facilitated creative writing workshops, and curated a range of literary events.