The Renunciations: Poems Matt Phelan A hidden past

A hidden past

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FINALIST • Set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse—the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star

the new loner in school

and the mystery and magic of the sea

To figure out what they’re really digging for

The Renunciations: Poems Matt Phelan A hidden pastAn extraordinary collection of endurance and transformation by the award winning author of Bestiary The Renunciations is a book of resilience, survival, and the journey to radically shift ones sense of self in the face of trauma. Moving between a childhood marked by love and abuse and the breaking marriage of that adult child, Donika Kelly charts memory and the body as landscapes to be traversed and tended. These poems construct life rafts and