In Mall Flower, poet and writer Tina Barry
mixes poems and short fiction to record a life – childhood, youth, and
adulthood. This artful combination of two literary forms also suggests a
question: is there a difference between the two?
These 35 poems
and (very) short stories – almost all are less than a page – follow in roughly
chronological order. From the beginning we know that this is the story of a
child in a broken family abandoned by the father. The impact is large; a
five-year-old girl is left devastated and looking for answers. By the time she’s
10, she knows that the brokenness has become the normal, but that doesn’t mean
she can’t yearn for what was.
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