Vestiges: Tales Told by Remnants by Namijo

By Namijo

there's a singular good looks within the stories of crumbling things.

In Vestiges: stories advised by means of Remnants, the relics of what was once converse their truths—the verdigris' quest for wholeness, the mildews' softly-seeped religion, the pottery's recounting of fracture, the decay's nostalgia for fireflies—as poet and novelist Namijo channels the voices of the remnants to discover such major issues because the interconnection of the actual and the religious, the quest to realize success, the which means of womanhood, the ubiquity of switch, the concomitance of genesis and decadence, the soreness of wistfulness, the recollection of prior lives, the discomfort of relocating ahead, and the tragedy of departure. contemplating her studies as a author, girl, and martial artist, she displays at the auras of our artifacts, the character of fact, the threads that attach us, and the romance of a perishing season. during this number of poems, Namijo creates anything significant from the damaged pieces—

From the burning embers
Fireflies.

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