Showing posts with label James Blackwell. Show all posts
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Monday, December 20, 2021

‘A Lovely Magnificence’ / Bodies of Light, by Jennifer Down

Jennifer Down

‘A Lovely Magnificence’: Bodies of Light, by Jennifer Down


James Blackwell
8 December 2021

It’s rare an author who can turn trauma into beauty. It requires immense skill and depth to navigate an authentic rendering of experience without indulging in the emotions you want your reader to connect to. To move them past the horror of description into further realisation beyond the visceral.