Invisible Lives
Invisible Lives by Cristalle Smith, published by University of Calgary Press in 2024, is a poignant exploration of cycles of dysfunction and domestic violence through the lens of experimental hybrid poetry. This edition spans 128 pages and is presented in English. The work reflects on a childhood marked by upheaval and poverty, addressing themes such as the invisibility of single motherhood and the silence surrounding domestic violence. Smith’s lyrical resonance captures memories that traverse time and space, challenging the patterns of absence and denial.
Readers will find a rich tapestry of poetic meditations that intertwine personal narrative with elements of pop culture and diverse landscapes. The poems chronicle the experiences of a family constantly in motion, revealing hidden family secrets and the complexities of trauma. Invisible Lives delves into the lives of mothers, daughters, and veterans, offering a fierce voice that confronts taboos and interrogates power and intimacy. Through this work, Smith provides a platform for those who have endured intersecting layers of trauma and violence, giving them a new voice in the literary landscape.
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Invisible Lives chronicles cycles of dysfunction and domestic violence. Using experimental hybrid poetry, Cristalle Smith breaks generational silence in lyric resonance, reflecting on a childhood rife with upheaval and poverty, the invisibility of single motherhood, and the silence of domestic violence. These poems sing memory across divides of time and space, breaking the patterns of absence and denial and challenging what is kept unseen.
Associative leaps chronicle the daughter of a family always on the move. Family secrets thaw in spring mud. Invisible Lives delivers poetic meditations collaged with pop culture and impossibly colliding landscapes. The prairies of Alberta collapse into the sinkholes of northern Florida in a cacophony of lyric layering.
Smith’s fierce and electric voice breaks taboos and challenges the status quo. She sings poor and working class lives, young lives, the lives of mothers, grandmothers, and daughters, the lives of veterans, lives that have endured layers of intersecting trauma and violence. Invisible Lives is an interrogation of power and intimacy that gives a new voice to the people who survive.
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