First Rain in Paradise

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Llyfr am gwympo yw First Rain in Paradise . Mae cerddi hynod ddyfeisgar Gwyneth Lewis yn olrhain y meddwl mewnol a gerfiwyd gan drawma cam-drin emosiynol yn ystod plentyndod trwy'r salwch cronig a ddaw ar ôl hynny a thuag at atgyfodiad hirymaros. Mae'r hanesion o fyw mewn tywyllwch a dod mas o'r tywyllwch hwnnw wedyn yn mynd ben-ben ag angel iaith.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

First Rain in Paradise is a book about falling. Gwyneth Lewis's highly inventive poems trace an interior landscape carved out by the trauma of childhood emotional abuse through subsequent chronic ill health and towards a hard-won resurrection. These accounts of living in and emerging from the dark wrestle with the angel of language.

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Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

This work refuses to keep pain a secret. Shame is a lurking presence. The book opens with ‘Spiderings’, a gothic horror sequence about the effects of maternal abuse. Then comes a descent into underworlds of debasement and debility. The third, title sequence begins with a 15th-century manuscript depicting the fall of Adam and Eve, the poems presenting a portrait of a drenched, catastrophic landscape, asking how human trauma relates to a fantasy Eden. Gwyneth Lewis has won wide acclaim for her versatile and varied writing across genres, most notably in her award-winning poetry in both English and Welsh. This book shows a deepening of her technical, imaginative and intellectual resources which are challenged and exercised to the full. The poems map uneasy terrains with realism and – most importantly – with joy. ‘One of the most exhilaratingly gifted poets of her generation.’ – M. Wynn Thomas, Guardian ‘Such exuberant invention… The range of reference is so wide, we are intoxicated by it.’ – Elaine Feinstein, Independent