Let the Mourning Come: Poems about grief and healing
By Kika Man
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Megan Falley, author of Drive Here and Devastate Me (Write Bloody Publishing, 2018):
In 2010, performance artist Marina Abramović sat at the Museum of Modern art for seven hundred thirty-six and a half silent, static hours, while spectators took the chair opposite her, bearing witness. When I read “Let the Mourning Come,” I am reminded of Abramović –– as the words inside contain an invitation to sit, starkly, across from the artist, and peer in at the impossible humanness. There is a generosity in allowing yourself to be so fully seen, and this collection operates as a walking tour through Kika Man's labyrinthine and beautiful brain. As the author transcribes both the madness of both the external and internal landscape, they carve out room for small joys –– avocados, kombucha, magpies, poetry. Kika promises “I will draw the flowers that come sprouting out of my head” –– and that is exactly what this debut collection does. It paints a picture of what can grow in the garden of a mind unwilling to be tamed. Primarily written in a psych ward during a pandemic, these poems contain an introspection that could only be born from extreme isolation. This book makes a gift out of loneliness.
Neil Hilborn, author of Our Numbered Days and The Future (Button Poetry 2015 & 2018):
In this book, mourning is the simultaneous rejection and celebration of new distance. These poems illuminate both isolation and the ways we can try to reach beyond our loneliness. Kika writes “You asked me when I’m at home // In this body, never.” and spends the rest of the book figuring out where home is. If you’ve ever watched an airplane get smaller until it disappears, then you need to read these poems.
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Let the Mourning Come - Kika Man
Let the mourning come
Published by Prolific Pulse Press LLC Copyright© 2022 by Kika Win Ling Van Robays
All rights reserved under International and Pan American Conventions. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without written permission from the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
Library of Congress Control Number: 2022910084
Paperback: ISBN 979-8-9863237-1-8
EBook ISBN: 979-8-9863237-2-5
Cover Photo: Kika Man
Marie Darah, winner of the European Slam Poetry Competition (2020):
Wrap you in sweet Poetry.
Begin a journey to kindness
in this bubble of soap and water. Welcome to the magical World of the meekest creature.
Kika's universe is the softest way
to approach unstandardised concepts of being as if everything was simple, natural, already here. In the hollow of the life's spoon
Savour it, smoothly...
It's a delight of open-minded thoughts and if you have any doubt about it, They will kindly teach you
It's okay to be who you are...
It's okay to lose yourself deep down,
to find yourself at least on the edge of a New Era If You're alone on your journey,
loneliness doesn't define you.
You are as unique as we are many.
Huanying to let the mourning come.
Welcome to find a way of seeing you after all.
Megan Falley, author of Drive Here and Devastate Me
(Write Bloody Publishing, 2018):
In 2010, performance artist Marina Abramović sat at the Museum of Modern art for seven hundred thirty-six and a half silent, static hours, while spectators took the chair opposite her, bearing witness. When I read Let the Mourning Come,
I am reminded of Abramović –– as the words inside contain an invitation to sit,