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    Amnesia Findings
    Amnesia Findings
    Amnesia Findings
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    Amnesia Findings

    By Anna Jacobson

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    Now I knit myself back into a human. It's hard work relearning the steps—slip-stitch, drop-stitch, pick-up stitch, loop. I get into a rhythm. The pattern is complex—I drop a few stitches. The holes form gaps in my memory. Knitting visions and memories, Anna Jacobson's collection traces the skeins of lost histories and the spaces of dropped stitches. Exquisite and whimsical, these poems bear witness to the broken and healed. Gentle but robust, these are poems of personal resilience, framed by explorations of Jewish culture and family and fuelled by a boundless and exhilarating imaginativeness.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Queensland Press
    Release dateSep 3, 2019
    ISBN9780702263699
    Amnesia Findings
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    Anna Jacobson

    Anna Jacobson is an award-winning writer and artist from Brisbane. Amnesia Findings (UQP, 2019) is her first full-length poetry collection, which won the 2018 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize. In 2020 Anna won the Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Writing and was awarded a Queensland Writers Fellowship. In 2018 she won the Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award. Her poetry chapbook The Last Postman (Vagabond Press, 2018) was published as part of the deciBel 3 series. She has been a finalist in the Brisbane Portrait Prize, Blake Art Prize and Marie Ellis Prize for Drawing.

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