Soft Inheritance

by Fawn Parker

In her exceptional poetic debut, Fawn Parker meditates on grief, illness, and the open-handed relationship between material objects and memory. Written after her mother was diagnosed with cancer,  Soft Inheritance  follows the poet's rapidly evolving reality where “kindness is a scar,“ though ”not all scar-makers are kind. ,”" Both a treatise on the sick body and the state of "“after”—post-caretaking, post-breakup, post-moving, and post-death—these poems question what is inherited, and ask what can safely be left behind. A diamond ring? A cancerous gene? Soft Inheritance is a finely crafted love letter to the people and places that imprint on a life.

Genres: Poetry

80 pages, Paperback

Published September 16, 2023

About the author

Fawn Parker is a novelist and poet from Toronto. Her novel What We Both Know (M&S 2022) was nominated for the Giller Prize and her recent novel Hi, It's Me (M&S 2024) was a finalist for the Writer's Trust Atwood Gibson Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award. Fawn is the Poet Laureate of Fredericton New Brunswick.

Reviews

[Fawn Parker · Rating 5 out of 5]

I tried to make it good

[Kara · Rating 5 out of 5]

How does this only have 18 ratings? Someone else read this!

[Kate · Rating 3 out of 5]

I had not read any poetry for many years, except a few old favourites. Unfortunately, I did not really find this book very engaging. It did not touch me emotionally. A pity.