Böcker av Aideen Henry

The stories in Hugging Thistles deal with the interior worlds of intense, multilayered characters. They struggle with matters that are often unspeakable, and the powerful paradoxical emotions that emerge control their lives. Hugging Thistles marks Aideen Henry's stunning short fiction debut.

Hands Moving at the Speed of Falling Snow explores a spectrum of conflicting emotions that hold us in their power, including love, loss, joy, and grief. Some poems meticulously describe people and their particular ways, the point of view of the child interwoven with that of the adult. Others show a view of damage from inside a wound; they try to name the unnamable, speak the unspeakable to make sense of acute life experience. Throughout the collection there is a feeling of pause, of an imagination straining to leave the quiet bay for the pitch and roll of the open sea.