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Heart, Diamond, Club, Spade
Heart, Diamond, Club, Spade
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"Snarling and accusatory, searching and forgiving, the cumulative effect of Heart, Diamond, Club, Spade is to carry the reader’s’ understanding of the lyric tradition in poetry forward." — Jason Stefanik, finalist for 2018 Governor General's Awards
Heart, Diamond, Club, Spade documents years of a poet's struggles with relationships, wanting to leave a place, and starting new lives. Expressed in passionate words and desperation, the poems are reminders of a healing process through a young woman's yearning for love and the search for a better place for herself.
The 33 short poems in the book are categorized into the names of the four suits of cards. Heart, as a representation of spring and summer, recounts a timeline from an end to a new start; Diamond, which represents the earth, includes poems that deal with the worldly matters and the problems of materialism in love; Club, a symbol of fall and winter, envelops poems that tackle with irretrievable loss; and lastly, Spade, a leaf of the cosmic tree, is what brings us back to the subject of life. The last section includes the poems that tackle impermanence, acceptance, forgiveness for oneself, and finally, she might choose to start living the tomorrow.
With an implicitly melancholy tone, the author shares her journey as an immigrant, confronting troubles with finding love in a place of no pre-existing foundation, and the inevitable sacrifice every immigrant is facing: having to leave home.
Heart, Diamond, Club, Spade is a short and sweet complication about looking for home, finding love, and finding oneself.
Heart, Diamond, Club, Spade documents years of a poet's struggles with relationships, wanting to leave a place, and starting new lives. Expressed in passionate words and desperation, the poems are reminders of a healing process through a young woman's yearning for love and the search for a better place for herself.
The 33 short poems in the book are categorized into the names of the four suits of cards. Heart, as a representation of spring and summer, recounts a timeline from an end to a new start; Diamond, which represents the earth, includes poems that deal with the worldly matters and the problems of materialism in love; Club, a symbol of fall and winter, envelops poems that tackle with irretrievable loss; and lastly, Spade, a leaf of the cosmic tree, is what brings us back to the subject of life. The last section includes the poems that tackle impermanence, acceptance, forgiveness for oneself, and finally, she might choose to start living the tomorrow.
With an implicitly melancholy tone, the author shares her journey as an immigrant, confronting troubles with finding love in a place of no pre-existing foundation, and the inevitable sacrifice every immigrant is facing: having to leave home.
Heart, Diamond, Club, Spade is a short and sweet complication about looking for home, finding love, and finding oneself.
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