Faced with illness and the horrors of life, fear grows. How can we not let it take over, but instead heal it, with compassion for ourselves? In a family fresco dominated by a syncretism of beliefs - Catholic rites, popular superstitions and Latin American traditions - Peur pietà explores a range of rituals that, while failing to ward off fear, offer a creative and sensitive understanding of the world. In this intimate dialogue between the sacred and the living forces of language, Nicholas Dawson pays homage to the women in his family, the seers - grandmother, mother, sister - who bequeathed to him forms of intuition for apprehending our inevitable end and the cruel disruption of the cosmos.
en petit frère
éternel j’imagine
un univers attentif
une nouvelle cartographie
colorée comme nos premiers jours
la réponse à mes prières est un appel
une transmutation
il est temps d’encombrer ma mémoire
nos corps et la planète
d’enfances merveilleuses
Author: Nicholas Dawson
Publisher: Éditions du Noroît
Publication date: 4 March 2024
Number of pages: 120
Language: French
Faced with illness and the horrors of life, fear grows. How can we not let it take over, but instead heal it, with compassion for ourselves? In a family fresco dominated by a syncretism of beliefs - Catholic rites, popular superstitions and Latin American traditions - Peur pietà explores a range of rituals that, while failing to ward off fear, offer a creative and sensitive understanding of the world. In this intimate dialogue between the sacred and the living forces of language, Nicholas Dawson pays homage to the women in his family, the seers - grandmother, mother, sister - who bequeathed to him forms of intuition for apprehending our inevitable end and the cruel disruption of the cosmos.
